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diff --git a/docs/source/codebase.rst b/docs/source/codebase.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 3ef91290..00000000 --- a/docs/source/codebase.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,160 +0,0 @@ -.. MediaGoblin Documentation - - Written in 2011, 2012 by MediaGoblin contributors - - To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all - copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to - the public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without - any warranty. - - You should have received a copy of the CC0 Public Domain - Dedication along with this software. If not, see - <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>. - -.. _codebase-chapter: - -======================== - Codebase Documentation -======================== - -.. contents:: Sections - :local: - - -This chapter covers the libraries that GNU MediaGoblin uses as well as -various recipes for getting things done. - -.. Note:: - - This chapter is in flux. Clearly there are things here that aren't - documented. If there's something you have questions about, please - ask! - - See `the join page on the website <http://mediagoblin.org/join/>`_ - for where we hang out. - -For more information on how to get started hacking on GNU MediaGoblin, -see `the wiki <http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/>`_. - - -Software Stack -============== - -* Project infrastructure - - * `Python <http://python.org/>`_: the language we're using to write - this - - * `Nose <http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/>`_: - for unit tests - - * `virtualenv <http://www.virtualenv.org/>`_: for setting up an - isolated environment to keep mediagoblin and related packages - (potentially not required if MediaGoblin is packaged for your - distro) - -* Data storage - - * `SQLAlchemy <http://sqlalchemy.org/>`_: SQL ORM and database - interaction library for Python. Currently we support sqlite and - postgress as backends. - -* Web application - - * `Paste Deploy <http://pythonpaste.org/deploy/>`_ and - `Paste Script <http://pythonpaste.org/script/>`_: we'll use this for - configuring and launching the application - - * `WebOb <http://pythonpaste.org/webob/>`_: nice abstraction layer - from HTTP requests, responses and WSGI bits - - * `Routes <http://routes.groovie.org/>`_: for URL routing - - * `Beaker <http://beaker.groovie.org/>`_: for handling sessions and - caching - - * `Jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/>`_: the templating engine - - * `WTForms <http://wtforms.simplecodes.com/>`_: for handling, - validation, and abstraction from HTML forms - - * `Celery <http://celeryproject.org/>`_: for task queuing (resizing - images, encoding video, ...) - - * `Babel <http://babel.edgewall.org>`_: Used to extract and compile - translations. - - * `Markdown (for python) <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown>`_: - implementation of `Markdown <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>`_ - text-to-html tool to make it easy for people to write richtext - comments, descriptions, and etc. - - * `lxml <http://lxml.de/>`_: nice xml and html processing for - python. - -* Media processing libraries - - * `Python Imaging Library <http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/>`_: - used to resize and otherwise convert images for display. - - * `GStreamer <http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/>`_: (Optional, for - video hosting sites only) Used to transcode video, and in the - future, probably audio too. - - * `chardet <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet>`_: (Optional, for - ascii art hosting sites only) Used to make ascii art thumbnails. - -* Front end - - * `JQuery <http://jquery.com/>`_: for groovy JavaScript things - - - -What's where -============ - -After you've run checked out mediagoblin and followed the virtualenv -instantiation instructions, you're faced with the following directory -tree:: - - mediagoblin/ - |- mediagoblin/ # source code - | |- tests/ - | |- templates/ - | |- auth/ - | \- submit/ - |- docs/ # documentation - |- devtools/ # some scripts for developer convenience - | - | # the below directories are installed into your virtualenv checkout - | - |- bin/ # scripts - |- develop-eggs/ - |- lib/ # python libraries installed into your virtualenv - |- include/ - |- mediagoblin.egg-info/ - |- parts/ - |- user_dev/ # sessions, etc - - -As you can see, all the code for GNU MediaGoblin is in the -``mediagoblin`` directory. - -Here are some interesting files and what they do: - -:routing.py: maps url paths to views -:views.py: views handle http requests -:models.py: holds the sqlalchemy schemas---these are the data structures - we're working with - -You'll notice that there are several sub-directories: tests, -templates, auth, submit, ... - -``tests`` holds the unit test code. - -``templates`` holds all the templates for the output. - -``auth`` and ``submit`` are modules that enacpsulate authentication -and media item submission. If you look in these directories, you'll -see they have their own ``routing.py``, ``view.py``, and -``models.py`` in addition to some other code. |