[Grok-dev] Re: megrok.form 0.1

[Martijn Faassen]

Dirceu Pereira Tiegs wrote:
> Hi Martijn,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Martijn Faassen
> <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
>> Dirceu Pereira Tiegs wrote:
>>  > Hello,
>>  >
>>  > I've just released megrok.form on cheeseshop, hope it helps someone:
>>  >
>>  > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/megrok.form/0.1
>>
>>  This is great news! Thank you! I hope to get to play with this soon; I
>>  think some of this would be immediately useful in some of my work.
> 
> Nice! :-)

I actually played with it a little bit yesterday to test the 
z3c.autoinclude functionality. It works! Now to use megrok.form, you 
just list it in your project's setup.py, rerun buildout, and off you go.

>>  What are your plans for evolving this package forward? Any other things
>>  you think would be good to add?
> 
> Yes, there are some things (they're on TODO.txt), like:
> 
> - Create a widget for zope.interface.schema.Time (based on
> z3c.widget.dropdowndatewidget)
> 
> - Create / find a field for Reference (take a look at zc.relation,
> zc.relationship and lovely.relation)

I've been doing a lot of work on this topic recently and have a 
reference field implementation based on zc.relation (which is the most 
recent incarnation). I'm not entirely satisfied yet with the approach 
but will be pushing this to the outside world in the future so other 
people can review it. The focus was to have a relation field that is 
easy to use; I couldn't find an implementation of that exactly in the 
current code.

[snip other projects]

I think this would be a great task for volunteers. Just finding an 
existing widget and having it included in megrok.form is a reasonably 
simple task. Writing new fields and widgets is harder, but we now have 
some examples. Proposals and discussions please on this list!

>>> The source code is at http://svn.zope.org/Sandbox/dirceu/megrok.form.
>>  > Should I move it do the root directory?
>>
>>  Yes, please do! It's good for it to have visibility for people browsing
>>  svn.zope.org, and it also makes clear that other people are invited to
>>  help out. If anyone has more ideas for what can be added, let's please
>>  discuss it here.
> 
> Done. :-)

Excellent!

Regards,

Martijn