Turbogears2 migration: custom error pages

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Alessandro Molina
<alessandro.molina at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Currently, paster is still used. I briefly tried using gearbox (the
>> > supposed replacement) but it did not work. I did not spend more time
>> > on that to focus on the rest, but it should be tackled at some point.
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> Switching to gearbox should be relatively easy, I'll try to check the reason
> in the next days.
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>> > Other stuff like 'debugbar' also seems very useful, but did not work
>> > out of the box either.
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> Issue is that the debugbar, like most TG applications, uses the dotted
> notation for template files.
> Which in Kallithea is disabled because kallithea renders templates as
> '/filename.html' instead of 'kallithea.filename'.
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> Using the debugbar would require the dotted template engine resolution,
> which can't be enabled because the mako renderer in TG doesn't support
> mixing the two syntaxes.
> Other renderers like the genshi one are smarter and allow mixing path and
> dotted notations inside same project, but as the mako was one of the less
> used on TurboGears it is not as refined as the others.
>
> I can probably fix this by subclassing the mako renders in Kallithea and
> providing a custom renderer that supports both syntaxes.
>

If the dotted notation is more common or a better strategy, we could
also just switch to it?
It produces of course more changes for now, so it could be simpler to
postpone this to the point where we integrated to mainstream? Or use a
temporary hack to support both.