On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Jeff Sasmor wrote: Yep, it sure does need updating!
In App development/External Methods: "Pluggable brains" (sounds cool but daunting)
Pluggable brains are still called that, are are pretty straightforward. They're discussed in the new Zope Book, in the relational databases section, and in the (old, but IMHO still decent) ZSQL docs. They're also Quite Cool, giving a nice level of data abstraction, and a way to give ZSQL methods an 'index_html' method, so you can use a URL like http://foobar/staff/by_name/joel to get my page, rather than having to say http://foobar/staff/by_name/joel/staffInfo (assuming that staff=a folder, by_name=a ZSQL method w/direct traversal turned on, joel=primary key to look up in by_name, staffInfo=a DTML method to show a page about me)
In The Almighty Lever "An exiting new development being worked on for Zope is The Lever... "
(I have been working with Zope for well over a year and still don't know what THIS is....)
Yeeps. Never heard of it.
"Tabula or Aqueduct " (You have to dig deep to figure out what these are)
In Adding Object Behavior to Relational Data " With Zope and Aqueduct " "Aqueduct Database Methods"
Aqueduct is That Which Became ZSQL Methods (IIRC). Remember, Zope started as different products, hence the whole lingering "bobo" and "principia" names.
In "Programming Data with Tabula"
And Confera: this could be changed to something newer, I was under the impression that Confera was sort of obsolete.
I get that sense, too, though there is no death notice for it. Does Confera have any adavantage/disadvantage over the other discussion lists?
Summary: Quickstart Really Needs to Get Updated
Amen, fellow Zopista. Of course, this is an Open Source product, so I guess we could do something abou it... :-) -- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington