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<p dir="ltr">On Sep 25, 2016 15:42, "Mads Kiilerich" <<a href="mailto:mads@kiilerich.com">mads@kiilerich.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 09/25/2016 03:32 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:<br>
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>> A question that also needs to be answered is: what belongs in kallithea/lib/helpers.py and what in kallithea/lib/utils.py and what in kallithea/lib/utils2.py. Where is the split? <br>
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> Yes, it is a mess. I guess that is where experiments must show what is feasible improvements.<br>
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> I would say that helpers is what is available in templates as 'h' and could/should thus be quite high level and might depend on Pylons and the database.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So actually, anything in helpers that is _not_ directly used from a template should be moved elsewhere (utils, or maybe helpers2? ;-) )</p>
<p dir="ltr">> (It should thus perhaps not be in lib but in model?)</p>
<p dir="ltr">I think the web framework, like tg2 does, may expect helpers to be in lib. We can tell it about another location, but I don't know if that's worth it.</p>
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> It seems like utils2 generally is quite low level and almost doesn't depend on model. It could thus seem like a/the "real" lib utils.<br>
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> utils depend much more on model, and parts of it should thus perhaps move to a more high level model utils ... but there are probably also "good" parts of it that can stay in lib.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">It may perhaps be easier to step away from monolithic files and use topic files like foo_utils and such.</p>
<p dir="ltr">/Thomas</p>