[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Front End

[James Vasile]

I'm working on making the thing in git a working thing as we speak.  For
those playing along at home, we're currently doing this in #freedombox
on oftc.

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:07:37 -0500, James Vasile <james at hackervisions.org> wrote:
> Yeah, sorry.  I suppose I should have mentioned modules that are on my
> box but aren't standard.  I'll add it to the documentation.
> 
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:50:06 -0000, Keith <keith at tahrir.co> wrote:
> > apt-get install python-cheetah pandoc
> > 
> > Next one's pdflatex, looking it up now.
> > 
> > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:45:47 -0000, Les Orchard <l.m.orchard at pobox.com>  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed Mar  9 10:07:43 2011, James Vasile wrote:
> > >
> > >> Repo is in github: https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth
> > >>  git clone https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth.git
> > >>  Then run 'make' and 'plinth.py' and point a browser at localhost:8000
> > >
> > > Hmm, when I run `make`, I get:
> > >
> > > $ make
> > > make[1]: cheetah: No such file or directory
> > > make[1]: *** [base.py] Error 1
> > > make: *** [template] Error 2
> > >
> > > I haven't played with cheetah or cherrypy in a long while, but assuming  
> > > that's a module that needs installation?
> > >
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From: James Vasile <james at hackervisions.org>
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Front End
To: Keith <keith at tahrir.co>, freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
In-Reply-To: <op.vr219sr25jb2bo at delldesktop>
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On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:50:06 -0000, Keith <keith at tahrir.co> wrote:
> apt-get install python-cheetah pandoc
> 
> Next one's pdflatex, looking it up now.
> 
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:45:47 -0000, Les Orchard <l.m.orchard at pobox.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed Mar  9 10:07:43 2011, James Vasile wrote:
> >
> >> Repo is in github: https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth
> >>  git clone https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth.git
> >>  Then run 'make' and 'plinth.py' and point a browser at localhost:8000
> >
> > Hmm, when I run `make`, I get:
> >
> > $ make
> > make[1]: cheetah: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [base.py] Error 1
> > make: *** [template] Error 2
> >
> > I haven't played with cheetah or cherrypy in a long while, but assuming  
> > that's a module that needs installation?
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Freedombox-discuss mailing list
> > Freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
> 
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From: James Vasile <james at hackervisions.org>
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Front End
To: Les Orchard <l.m.orchard at pobox.com>
Cc: Freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
In-Reply-To: <4D77A0AB.7090000 at pobox.com>
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On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:45:47 -0500, Les Orchard <l.m.orchard at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed Mar  9 10:07:43 2011, James Vasile wrote:
> 
> > Repo is in github: https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth
> > 
> > git clone https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth.git
> > 
> > Then run 'make' and 'plinth.py' and point a browser at localhost:8000
> 
> Hmm, when I run `make`, I get:
> 
> $ make
> make[1]: cheetah: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [base.py] Error 1
> make: *** [template] Error 2
> 
> I haven't played with cheetah or cherrypy in a long while, but assuming 
> that's a module that needs installation?
From: James Vasile <james at hackervisions.org>
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Front End
To: Freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
In-Reply-To: <87y64oe3i8.fsf at opensourcematters.org>
References: <87y64oe3i8.fsf at opensourcematters.org>

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:07:43 -0500, James Vasile <james at hackervisions.org> wrote:
> I threw together the start of a front end.  It's pluggable python based
> on CherryPy, which is pretty light weight.  The idea here is that we can
> add more menu items by dropping some simple python into directories and
> using symlinks to activate and deactivate plugins.
> 
> The UI should just be a frontend to scripts that actually change the
> configs.
> 
> It's pretty rough code, and I expect none of it would survive to a final
> version, but I wanted to get *something* out there in the hopes that
> people can start hacking.
> 
> Repo is in github: https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth
> 
> git clone https://github.com/jvasile/Plinth.git
> 
> Then run 'make' and 'plinth.py' and point a browser at localhost:8000
> 
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