Turbogears2 migration: tests: "cannot import name meta"

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

On Sep 25, 2016 15:42, "Mads Kiilerich" <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
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> On 09/25/2016 03:32 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
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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?
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> Yes, it is a mess. I guess that is where experiments must show what is
feasible improvements.
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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.

So actually, anything in helpers that is _not_ directly used from a
template should be moved elsewhere (utils, or maybe helpers2? ;-)  )

> (It should thus perhaps not be in lib but in model?)

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.

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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.
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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.
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It may perhaps be easier to step away from monolithic files and use topic
files like foo_utils and such.

/Thomas
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