(11:22:28 AM) brian: how difficult would it be to write regression tests against pypvs?
(11:22:57 AM) brian: I'm thinking something like calling the different django routines, looking at the results, etc.
(11:23:02 AM) adrian: like system wide testing?
(11:23:11 AM) brian: yeah
(11:24:18 AM) brian: I bet there's already a django testing framework out there...
(11:24:19 AM) adrian: it'd probably take awhile
(11:24:27 AM) brian: oh no doubt
(11:25:17 AM) adrian: that's the kind of thing where it might be smarter to start looking at upgrading to python 3 and refactoring modules along the way, writing tests as we go
(11:25:51 AM) brian: yeah, that's a good approach
(11:27:08 AM) adrian: I've got some ideas for what a refactored pypvs should look like
(11:27:49 AM) adrian: the biggest thing would be to not have the project itself in the master branch
(11:28:19 AM) adrian: only publishing the modules makes it waaay easier to deploy/set up in development
(11:28:39 AM) brian: that's how it's usually done with django apps?
(11:28:44 AM) adrian: yah
(11:28:54 AM) brian: the modules are basically independent of one another?
(11:28:58 AM) adrian: yes
(11:29:19 AM) brian: so they don't share the same settings.py, urls.py, etc. files?
(11:29:33 AM) adrian: they do
(11:29:40 AM) adrian: you just organize it differently
(11:29:41 AM) adrian: so
(11:29:49 AM) adrian: you set up your local project folder
(11:29:58 AM) adrian: and then import the urls from the modules you want
(11:30:33 AM) adrian: it promotes a higher degree of orthogonality
(11:30:46 AM) adrian: which is important in a big project
(11:31:05 AM) brian: oh I'm a big fan of low coupling :)
(11:31:16 AM) adrian: ha, me too
(11:31:30 AM) adrian: so right now, all the urls are in pypvs/urls.py
(11:31:54 AM) brian: sort of like a dispatcher
(11:31:58 AM) adrian: this is no good, because what if the 'keyvotes' module doesn't load/dissappears/etc ?
(11:32:01 AM) adrian: yah
(11:32:46 AM) adrian: so a cleaner way to do it would have a urls file in the keyvotes modules that imports into the home urls file
(11:34:07 AM) adrian: And I'd like to run this one by Mike as well, but there are more modern ways to set up your django server
(11:34:39 AM) brian: good points...we should probably dump some of these ideas on the wiki
(11:34:43 AM) adrian: maybe use a framework like twisted or tornado to set up non-blocking servers
(11:34:48 AM) adrian: yah
(11:35:17 AM) adrian: when pypvs was started, the web was a different place.  blocking WSGI processes were the norm.
(11:35:27 AM) adrian: but we've got a data-heavy app
(11:35:42 AM) adrian: so setting up some non-blocking io could prove beneficial
(11:35:44 AM) adrian: plus
(11:35:55 AM) adrian: it's more efficient in terms of server load