[Python Edinburgh] Hack Session

[Mark Smith]

Hi Guys,

I haven't really had any inspiration on this topic myself. I like the idea
of porting Chronic to Python for a couple of reasons:

* The learning curve should be relatively shallow.
* It doesn't require knowledge of web development or django to either
understand it or to see the point.

I realise that the majority of us are web developers, but it would be nice
to pick a project that wasn't too intimidating, and was open to all.

--Mark

On 7 October 2010 14:59, Dougal Matthews <dougal85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 October 2010 14:29, Graeme Urquhart <g.urkhart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 5 October 2010 20:52, Dougal Matthews <dougal85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 3. Django Bursar
>>> Bursar[3] is a generic payment gateway, its got much of the code there
>>> but its far from a finished project. It's a spin-off from satchmo[4] and
>>> thus implements a number of gateways - they are not all confirmed as working
>>> and mostly untested. It's a great idea and I would like to see it as a more
>>> generic Python library with then a set of django helpers. I've used it in a
>>> project fairly recently so I'm quite familiar with the internals as I had to
>>> dive in and do some bug fixing.
>>>
>>
>> I didn't know this existed, if I did I wouldn't have spent the last week
>> decoupling Satchmo's payment processor - which felt like it was more tightly
>> knitted than a sheet of graphene!
>
>
> Ha, yes it really is a pain and there are some ugly naming conventions that
> came out of it too. The state of it is pretty bad but the initial work has
> been done at least, I've got a fork on bitbucket with a couple of minor
> fixes but we ended up doing an internal fork (at the company I was
> contracting for at the time) to get it working. As a result I've got a
> pretty decent basis where to start to get (at least) the pay pal gateway
> going.
>
> Dougal
>
>
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