Not My Idea

Wednesday, we give a presentation, with some friends, about the CouchDB Database, to the Toulouse local LUG.

Thanks a lot to all the presents for being there, it was a pleasure to talk about this topic with you. Too bad the season is over now an I quit Toulouse next year.

During our brainstorming about the topic, we used some paper, and we wanted to make a presentation the simpler way.

First thing that come to my mind was using restructured text, so I’ve wrote a simple file containing our different bullet points.

In fact, there is quite nothing to do then, to have a working presentation.
So far, I’ve used the rst2pdf program, and a simple template, to generate output.

It’s probably simple to have similar results using latex + beamer, I’ll try this next time, but as I’m not familiar with latex syntax, restructured text was a great option.

Here are the final PDF output, Rhe ReST source, the theme used, and the command line to generate the PDF:

As I’ve been working on Distutils2 during the past week, taking part of the GSOC program, here is a short summary of what I’ve done so far.

As my courses are not over yet, I’ve not worked as much as I wanted, and this will continues until the end of June. My main tasks are about making installation and uninstallation commands, to have a simple way to install distributions via Distutils2.

To do this, we need to rely on informations provided by the Python Package Index (PyPI), and there is at least two ways to retreive informations from here: XML-RPC and the "simple" API.

So, I’ve been working on porting some Distribute related stuff to Distutils2, cutting off all non distutils’ things, as we do not want to depend from Distribute’s internals. My main work has been about reading the whole code, writing tests about this and making those tests possible.

In fact, there was a need of a pypi mocked server, and, after reading and introducing myself to the distutils behaviors and code, I’ve taken some time to improve the work Konrad makes about this mock.