Re: Dev improvements to pgweb

On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> First, lemme thank the web team for doing a terrific job of making it
> really easy to build a pgweb test server.  I suspect that the web team
> may have cause to regret, in the future, making it easy enough that I
> can do it.
>
> Before I submit a patch covering all of the following, I'd like to make
> sure that none of the below things are intentional:
>
> 1. dev build instructions don't mention the HTML validator script
>
> 2. pyyaml is required to follow the dev build instructions, but is not
> in requirements.txt (is this because it's *only* required for dev builds?)
>
> 3.  The dev instructions don't mention setting the database *user* or
> password in settings_local (probably assuming that the webserver owner
> and the db user are the same).
>
> 4. the HTML validator script has no ability to recurse or follow links;
> it only validates one page at a time.
>
> For the last item, I was thinking of writing a script which wraps the
> current HTML validator script, but either has the ability to take a set
> of URLs from a list file, or to load all files in the templates/pages
> tree below the target directory.

Nope, I wouldn't say any of those are intentional, so a patch fixing
those would definitely be accepted.

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