FYI - For those working w/ mercurial: I've mirrored this morning's latest changes from Massimo to http://bitbucket.org/yarko/web2py
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Yarko T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan - > Nice work! > > For everyone (I think this will work easiest - if I'm missing something, > let me know): > > If you know / use mercurial, go ahead and figure out Bitbucket.org. > > If not, you might as well figure out Launchpad.net and bazaar. > > Either way, you should have a Launchpad account. When you have something > you want people to look at, test (make sure no one else has problems) - > point them to your branch and ask for tests (branch on Launchpad, or branch > on Bitbucket - doesn't matter). > > The "gift" of Bitbucket is you don't need to know / use mercurial: just > grab an "on-demand" zip or gzipped-tar, and away you go! > > When your patch is ready for Massimo, he (I think) will appreciate being > able to use merge tools automatically (e.g. kdiff3, ....). > > Massimo: 2 ways to do that: > - take a branch from Launchpad that someone requests be merged; > - take a zip from bitbucket.org that someone requests to me merged (no > need to use mercurial) > > IF you use Bitbucket, you should start by forking the web2py mirror (it > includes t2 - if you're not using it, take it out of your branch after you > "fork"). IF YOU DO THAT, THAT ARCHIVE ALREADY HAS .bzr ---- DO NOT > REMOVE THIS - It will make it easy for Massimo to do a test merge on his > local machine w/ bazaar. > > I hope this will make it easy to take contributions from more people > without requiring them to learn bazaar if they already know mercurial. > > Let me know if you have questions, or if this is confusing. > > Regards, > Yarko > > > Just to make sure there's no confusion: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:43 AM, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> Hi Jonathan, >> >> please make them into a single one IS_URL(mode="strict" or "generic") >> and email it to me. I will include it in the official distribution. I >> do not use bitbucket. bz only. >> >> Massmo >> >> On Nov 11, 6:28 am, Jonathan Benn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > It took me a few days but I managed to implement and thoroughly test >> > two new validator functions for web2py: >> > >> > IS_GENERIC_URL: this precisely follows the URL specs (RFC 2396). It >> > screens out strings with funny characters, and checks the inputed >> > scheme against an authoritative list of all valid schemes. This >> > generic function will work to validate ANY protocol that uses URLs. >> > >> > IS_HTTP_URL: this precisely follows the HTTP protocol URL specs (RFC >> > 2616). It only works for http and https, but it handles all the weird >> > cases, like relative URLs, abbreviated URLs, ports, localhost, etc. >> > etc. It checks to make sure the domain makes sense, and it checks the >> > top-level domain against an authoritative list. If you input an >> > abbreviated URL, it will prepend "http://"; unless you specify >> > otherwise when you construct the validator. >> > >> > As you might guess, successful validations of IS_HTTP_URL are a subset >> > of what IS_GENERIC_URL validates. >> > >> > It is not possible to create a version of IS_URL that properly >> > validates HTTP, FTP and FILE and other schemes, because each scheme is >> > mutually exclusive as far as I can tell. They each have their own >> > different syntaxes. Therefore, I suggest that for IS_URL we either: >> > >> > (1) Make it into an "umbrella function" that runs a series of >> > validators one after the other, returning the first that is accepted >> > >> > OR >> > >> > (2) We rename either IS_HTTP_URL or IS_GENERIC_URL to IS_URL, >> > depending on which one best reflects the desired implementation for >> > IS_URL >> > >> > I'm going to try to figure out how to upload my changes to BitBucket >> > tomorrow. For anyone that would like to see my results immediately, >> > please just send me an email and I'll be happy to send you the files. >> > >> > I hope the above helps at least a little, >> > >> > --Jonathan >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
