[PEAK] start of an error template, and a few questions

[wayne at larsen.st]

> At 12:31 AM 2/11/04 -0600, Wayne Larsen wrote:
>>Here's the start of an error template to be used while debugging.  A few
>>questions I encountered:
>>  * My emacs ~ files threw me for a loop for a while - ResourceDirectory
>> won't find the template with the ~ file in the directory - is there any
>> way to exclude ~ files from being seen?
>
> What does the filename look like?  Is it with a trailing '~'?  Maybe I
> need
> to add a way to exclude a pattern from consideration.
>
Yes - "error_404.pwt~"

> Anyway, I think you can see now why I say that peak.web isn't quite ready
> for prime time.  The framework is actually in pretty decent shape, but it
> lacks a *lot* of these fit and finish issues that won't be able to be
> really get cleaned up until I've done more "real work" using it.
>

Having looked into peak.web a little bit now, I am more intrigued then
before.  I realize now how the framework I had built for webware
incorporates lightweight and poorly designed implementations of several
technologies nicely designed in peak.web.  Particularly an object
publishing system and the inversion of control pattern for some
dependencies.  I was running into the limits with these systems, however,
which is why I started looking around for a "better" way in the first
place.

Now this is a non critical system that I am working with in my spare time,
so I am willing to work with an alpha system.  On the other hand, there's
no way I'll be able to make any kind of progress without some assistance
from you.  So my question to you then - is it valuable/useful to you if I
keep plugging away at this, bringing up issues, questions, bug reports? 
Or should I just accept that I may never reach web nirvana and look for
another option -- whether that's Zope X3, twisted.web, or going back to my
original thought of modifying webware.

Cheers,
Wayne