[Buildbot-devel] Template system for HTML views (#342 and 1.0)

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Mon, 18 May 2009 09:32:03 +0200, Axel Hecht <l10n.moz at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> [snip]
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>In my head, the place where you most likely end up with mixing twisted with
>the web framework is log output on the fly. If you want your general
>templating system to work here, you should be able to keep a connection to a
>slave alive and pump data to it, as well as use some callback or
>generator-based stuff for the templating itself.
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>At least that's what buildbot does right now, not sure if we'd want to drop
>that.

Log files served by buildbot hardly have any markup in them at all.  This
seems like the least of the use cases driving the selection of a system.  The
status grid or some other new, novel, complex page will make much harsher
demands of a templating system.

Jean-Paul