Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)Oct 13

Hey, any Python experts want to help a Python newbie out? I've been hacking for decades, but I can't say I know Python best practices.

I'm working on https://github.com/Ovid/sqlitch-v2 (porting some Perl code to Python) and while it seems good to me (but very much alpha and a WIP), I don't know what I don't know. If there's anything obvious I've missed or is unpythonic, I would love to know.

#Python #Perl

Show threadJason CromeOct 13
@ovid But… why? Is this to improve adoption by Perl-adverse shops? I use the dockerized version for several projects and no one bats an eye.
Show threadCurtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)Oct 13

@cromedome Not happy about this, but:

* The company bans Perl in its tech stack.
* If they switch away from their currently broken tooling, they want something they can maintain and extend.
* I'm working with 200+ devs, many of them newer, and they don't want to use CLI tools. It's trivial for me to extend this new tool with a GUI.

I'm not saying these are great reasons, but that's the pushback.

Show threadSam Kington

@ovid @cromedome Out of interest, what sort of GUI do the command-line-adverse want / will they get? A menu item in VSCode or similar? A button in GitHub and/or their CI website? Something else?

I mean, I think far more people should have said “no, I want to use a proper GUI rather than basically CP/M or MS DOS” 20 years ago, rather than people deciding to carry on using dinosaurs like vi or emacs, but I’m concerned about how you automate this stuff.

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Show threadCurtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)Oct 14

@skington @cromedome There weren't specific, beyond hyperventilating at the thought of the command line.

I could try to duplicate UX of Flyway (https://www.red-gate.com/products/flyway/), but at the core level, their database management is so poorly designed that I want to step back and rethink. Will have a play with interfaces later.

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