[web2py:13846] Re: t3 on launchpad, t2 will die

2008-12-18 Thread James Ashley
This is based on the way I understand T2 and T3. I haven't actually used them, so I could be totally off base here. On Dec 17, 1:38 pm, "Paul D. Eden" wrote: > +1 for adding a plugin system to web2py and making T2 a plugin. I'm going to +1 that as well. > > A standardised and documented plugi

[web2py:14289] Re: Proposal: MVC separation - son of custom views

2008-12-29 Thread James Ashley
For the backwards-compatibility conversation: This doesn't break backwards compatibility at all, AFAICT. It just introduces an alternative way of doing things. Of course, that can be a bad idea. It's no longer as obvious which is the "right" way. It's extra surface area to maintain. I'll secon

[web2py:14469] Re: gae - specifying choices to StringProperty

2009-01-03 Thread James Ashley
On Jan 2, 9:21 am, mdipierro wrote: > I do not know. but the slowdown is not storing and retrieving the > list. the slowdown will be in populating the dropbox. The GAE datastore is pretty slow. From what I've gathered, depending on your data model, if you're doing more than 2 read/writes (wit

[web2py:14471] Re: gae - specifying choices to StringProperty

2009-01-03 Thread James Ashley
On Jan 1, 5:18 pm, "sudhakar m" wrote: > In Gae, we can specify the choices when creating the stringproperty. > > *  phone_type = db.StringProperty( >     choices=('home', 'work', 'fax', 'mobile', 'other')) > * > > This will prevent other value's to this field. I am finding it very much > usefu

[web2py:14534] Re: gae - specifying choices to StringProperty

2009-01-04 Thread James Ashley
[This is starting to veer *way* off-topic, and might be more appropriate on the GAE list. My apologies] On Jan 3, 5:00 pm, "sudhakar m" wrote: (OK, this was from a different message): > Yes I did a small test with a simple model. It was taking around > 1sec/request for single write on an entity

[web2py:14542] Re: gae - specifying choices to StringProperty

2009-01-04 Thread James Ashley
on to not use web2py's ORM. If/lwhen I do switch to a different platform, I'll also be switching back to an RDBMS. Which will involve a fairly hefty database re-design, no matter which way I look at things. I'll be far less likely to miss something if I have an obvious re-writ

[web2py:11147] Re: Getting a Warning straight out of the box for web2py + GAE

2008-11-04 Thread James Ashley
This means you don't have the PIL module installed. The GAE SDK uses it to simulate google's image API. If you won't be using that, no big deal. If you need to, google PIL and install it. It's straightforward on Windows and Linux, but it seems kind of problematic on Mac OS. On Nov 2, 12:06 am