[ckan-dev] Hello-word-type theme extension

Fri Apr 8 15:07:22 UTC 2011

Looks right to me.

Once we've iterated it a bit more, it strikes me that the extension
route could *possibly* become the recommended route to customising --
we could make a paster template etc.

Not sure, just a thought.

SEb

On 8 April 2011 15:47, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
> Seb,
>
> I added a section to our theming wiki about your example extension here:
>
> http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/doc/theme
>
> Do correct it if I've missed anything.
>
> Dave
>
> On 1 April 2011 19:42, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Done.
>>
>> On 29 March 2011 13:26, James Gardner <james at 3aims.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Seb,
>>>
>>> Good stuff. I've noticed the Debian packaging (see
>>> https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/src/default/doc/deb.rst) doesn't always like
>>> extension points in __init__.py files. Haven't been able to work out why,
>>> but to solve the issue I've been moving all such code to a "plugin.py" file
>>> instead and I think this should now be considered best practice instead. For
>>> example:
>>>
>>> https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-harvest/changeset/784c90306f4b
>>>
>>> Could you please apply this change to your example too?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  On 29/03/11 12:58, Seb Bacon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've just created a new CKAN extension to demonstrate some evolving
>>>> best-practices regarding encapsulating all your customisations and
>>>> changes to core CKAN in a single package.
>>>>
>>>> As I say, it's evolving, so perhaps some people have other / better
>>>> ideas about how to structure it.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, a first version is at
>>>> https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-exampletheme; the README should
>>>> provide some basic orientation.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Seb
>>>>
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>>
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