[Grok-dev] Re: Template directories

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

Peter Bengtsson wrote:
[snip]
>>> The most annoying thing is tab completion, since I start typing app
>>> followed by TAB and then have to supply the rest every time.
>> Exactly. This has been annoying me too. <tab><tab><tab>... why doesn't
>> the damn thing auto-complete...   :)
>>
> Good that I'm not the only one being fustratest by this seemingly
> minor problem.

It's interesting that this is one of the primary motivations for this 
change.

I currently see a lot of unknowns in the design that's being proposed. 
If people are willing to clear out those unknowns, we could consider 
prototyping an implementation and seeing how we could make it possible 
for a grok project to use them as an alternative configuration profile.

I think the way a master.pt can be reused in multiple places, for 
instance, hasn't really been specified very well. Anyway, I propose we 
just ignore that particular potential advantage for now.

The simplest thing that could possibly be done is have a templates 
directory that contains subdirectories for all the modules, named after 
the modules, which then will contain the templates themselves. Will this 
in fact help with tab completion? Will this make it easier for people to 
find templates? Such an extra level of nesting would break the 'flat is 
better than nested' zen of python rule. It would however fulfill 
'namespaces are good' a bit better, as currently obviously foo_templates 
sneaks in a fake namespace called '_templates', which could then go away.

Regards,

Martijn