Coincidently, I was just trying to edit a file on the filesystem with an FTP client going thru Zope/FTP and a LocalFS. It didn't work. The LocalFS instance didn't look like a directory to FTP so FTP could neither read nor write to the directory. Does that throw a monkey wrench into your idea? -- Loren
-----Original Message----- From: zope-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Joachim Werner Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 15:54 To: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] Does creating REAL over-the-web Python code become realistic with Zope 2.4?
Hi!
When I read about the reload functionality of Zope 2.4, an old vision came back to my mind:
If we can reload Python code at runtime, and we can also edit, generate and store files (containing code) via the web (as LocalFS or extFile prove), then it should be perfectly possible to have something like ZClasses (it terms of the over-the-web front-end) that spits out and dynamically loads REAL Python classes instead of the rather experimental simulation of classes we get with ZClasses, right?
I'll skip the part about why we should not be able to manipulate Zope code over the web, which can be discussed separately ...
What do you think about this idea? If it finds some friends, I'll set up a formal proposal for something like "ZClass-like features to build REAL Zope Python classes over the web".
Joachim
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