On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Tim Dumol<timdu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Reading through the code base, it seems switching to Django will > entail replacing the user authentication system with Django's -- or at > least it seems the cleanest way to do it. Django views can be > relatively easily implemented by just translating the code in > `twist.py`. The authentication seems to pose the largest obstacle. > > I've made a new ticket regarding this: > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6897
Excellent. Thanks for doing this. What you say above makes perfect sense to me (that is, I agree). William > > On Aug 31, 11:20 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> <SNIP> >> >> I'm not at all convinced that using twisted in any way (web or web2) is a >> good idea for the Sage notebook. I plan to revisit this in late >> September. The first thing I plan to do is consider switching from >> twisted to Django, as is done in codenode -- seehttp://codenode.org/-- >> hopefully, even sharing code with that project. Of course, twisted could >> still get used at a certain level behind the scenes, but the Sage notebook >> would then no longer explicitly use it. >> >> So if you want to help as you describe above, perhaps you could accelerate >> this. This involves: >> >> (1) getting familiar with Django, if you don't already know it. >> >> (2) reading through the current codenode codebase >> >> (3) then formulating a plan to replace server/notebook/twist.py with >> something based either directly on Django, or possibly using codenode in >> some way. >> >> The above is what I would do, but if you do it first that would be >> spectacular. >> >> William > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
