On Wednesday 17 April 2002 11:52 am, Lennart Regebro wrote:
From: "Brian Lloyd" <brian@zope.com>
a. dependency / requirement for ordered folder
I agree. But ordering is the simple part of this, and could be done without orderedfolder. Does VHF use something else of orderedfolder? I think that has been asked before, but I don't remember the answer.
It can take advantage of the OrderedFolder metatype limitations (since ZClasses seem to mess up the code-based limits, at least in my zopes) but it doesn't have to. I had a built-in OrderedFolder-alike that I used for my initial releases; it would feel like a bit of a step back to return to that but I suppose I could if folks desired.
We've already learned the hard way that the existing SiteRoots and VirtualHostMonsters etc. confuse people. This is partly due to under-documentation, but it is also partly because of the "here, we'll give you several ways to do it!" approach.
Yup. Therefore I think that the host monster shouldn't be included. VHF should supercede it.
If there is enough interest in doing this that I don't have to feel like a "lone maintainer" (i.e., other folks would be willing to step up to bat for it when I can't) then I'd be more willing.
There is an alternative, and that is to clean up the enhanced enhanced virtual host monster we at Torped have done. It's based on sfm@imemes enhanced VHM and just like VHF is makes it possible to have standalone virtual hosting without strange apache magic. We added an API to translate virtual to physical paths and back.
That would be fine too. :-) Gary