On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 12:38 AM Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
On 5/4/23 13:13, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Isn't that the same thing as not having them in the FS?
If your installation is in a venv for example, the base templates are in venv/lib/python3.x/site-packages/mailman/templates/. Isn't that part of the FS?
<Confession> This is new knowledge that I did not posses previously as I have never seen it mentioned anywhere in the documentation that I have read. Maybe I was going to come to it one day. In the documentation that I have read, even the one from this <https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%203%20installation%20experience>, I never imagined about the presence of some defaults so I copied the ones that you shared and edited them. I had made a point of asking a question around this statement: "There are several default templates that have incorrect or generic URLs for the web UI. To make these better, I installed these templates in /opt/mailman/mm/var/templates/site/en/ as follows.." from the above link, but it kinda escaped me. I had wondered where they were. In those days, MM3 installation process was still as scary as hell for many people, me being one of them, or was it the scare of the snake (Python) :-)
True story - also one that can be gleaned from the myriad stupid questions I asked on the MM3 list over the years - it took me years to get to wrap my head around MM3! I find it hard to imagine that I have become a great supporter for this thing that scared me for ages, since the days when it was in BETA. The venv example has made the process very easy. In fact, after you and Abhilash helped me internalize what a venv is, I have been able to comfortably run other projects in virtualenv. These days I can install MM3 in just a few hours - getting all the components running - Core, Web, MTA, and Apache (whether with uWSGI, mod-wsgi or Gunicorn). </Confession>
And I continue to learn new things everyday.
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