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1 | ======= |
| 2 | Stack | |
| 3 | ======= | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | The software stack for this project might change over time, but this | |
| 6 | is what we're thinking right now. | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | There's some explanation of design decisions in the | |
| 9 | :ref:`design-decisions-chapter`. | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | ||
| 12 | Python | |
| 13 | ====== | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | * http://python.org/ | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | The core team does a lot of work in Python and it's the language we're | |
| 18 | most likely to do a project like this in. | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | ||
| 21 | MongoDB | |
| 22 | ======= | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | * http://www.mongodb.org/ | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | A "document database". Because it's extremely flexible and scales up | |
| 27 | well, but I guess not down well. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | ||
| 30 | MongoKit | |
| 31 | ======== | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | * http://namlook.github.com/mongokit/ | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | A lightweight ORM for mongodb. Helps us define our structures better, | |
| 36 | does schema validation, schema evolution, and helps make things more | |
| 37 | fun and pythonic. | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | ||
| 40 | Jinja2 | |
| 41 | ====== | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | * http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/ | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | For templating. Pretty much django templates++ but allows us to pass | |
| 46 | arguments into method calls instead of writing custom tags. | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | ||
| 49 | WTForms | |
| 50 | ======= | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | * http://wtforms.simplecodes.com/ | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | For form handling, validation, abstraction. Almost just like Django's | |
| 55 | templates. | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | ||
| 58 | WebOb | |
| 59 | ===== | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | * http://pythonpaste.org/webob/ | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | Gives nice request/response objects (also somewhat Django-ish). | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | ||
| 66 | Paste Deploy and Paste Script | |
| 67 | ============================= | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | * http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/ | |
| 70 | * http://pythonpaste.org/script/ | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | This will be the default way of configuring and launching the | |
| 73 | application. Since GNU MediaGoblin will be fairly WSGI minimalist though, | |
| 74 | you can probably use other ways to launch it, though this will be the | |
| 75 | default. | |
| 76 | ||
| 77 | ||
| 78 | Routes | |
| 79 | ====== | |
| 80 | ||
| 81 | * http://routes.groovie.org/ | |
| 82 | ||
| 83 | For URL Routing. It works well enough. | |
| 84 | ||
| 85 | ||
| 86 | JQuery | |
| 87 | ====== | |
| 88 | ||
| 89 | * http://jquery.com/ | |
| 90 | ||
| 91 | For all sorts of things on the JavaScript end of things, for all sorts | |
| 92 | of reasons. | |
| 93 | ||
| 94 | ||
| 95 | Beaker | |
| 96 | ====== | |
| 97 | ||
| 98 | * http://beaker.groovie.org/ | |
| 99 | ||
| 100 | For sessions, because that seems like it's generally considered the | |
| 101 | way to go I guess. | |
| 102 | ||
| 103 | ||
| 104 | Nose | |
| 105 | ==== | |
| 106 | ||
| 107 | * http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/1.0.0/ | |
| 108 | ||
| 109 | For unit tests because it makes testing a bit nicer. | |
| 110 | ||
| 111 | ||
| 112 | Celery | |
| 113 | ====== | |
| 114 | ||
| 115 | * http://celeryproject.org/ | |
| 116 | ||
| 117 | For task queueing (resizing images, encoding video, ...). | |
| 118 | ||
| 119 | ||
| 120 | RabbitMQ | |
| 121 | ======== | |
| 122 | ||
| 123 | * http://www.rabbitmq.com/ | |
| 124 | ||
| 125 | For sending tasks to celery, because I guess that's what most people | |
| 126 | do. Might be optional, might also let people use MongoDB for this if | |
| 127 | they want. |