Jeffrey P Shell wrote:

Crossing over from the Zope mailing list to zope-dev:

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> "Paul" == Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com> writes:

Would it be worthwhile to start looking at and hacking ZServer?

Yes. ZServer really restores Zope's original intent from the Bobo days: publishing objects through a variety of protocols. I think ILU support was once attempted back in those days. However, a Bobo app at that time could only have one publishing mechanism (ie, CGI, PCGI, FastCGI, ILU, etc...). ZServer allows for multiple publishing mechanisms in the same application, allowing access to the objects through the web, through FTP, or through any other protocol developed for ZServer/Medusa.

Hmm, I've been musing a bit about a zopefs module for linux. I couldn't code it, but I'm the Advisor for the (newly formed) Rice Linux Users Group, and some of those kids are very bright... Would Zserver be the place to start looking to hack something like that together? Or perhaps the ZClient thing I've seen mentioned... There was once something called userfs under linux, that allowed essentially arbitrary implementations of file system drivers in user space. One example that came with it was an ftpfs, so that, combined with Zserver's ftp support, gets us there. However, a cleaner implementation not involving FTP would be nice. Only problem - as far as I remember, userfs hasn't been updated since linux kernel 1.0 something (I think 1.2 broke it) Ross, (wanting to use all those crazy unix commands, like find/awk/sed/grep on his bobobase!) -- Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005