On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:45:02PM -0700, Andrew Wooldridge wrote:
3) an easier way to install new packages - like just clicking "install"
Actually, it's not that much different, but remember, Zope runs on lots of platforms :-) There's no "install" to click on a UNIX box --- the primary platform so far I'd imagine. Right now, packages (ney, Products) are just untarred and the server restarted. That's not that complex, I'd think.
4) Port Zope to mac!!
I haven't tried to run it yet, but don't know why ZopeHTTPServer wouldn't run, anyone else tried? As for connecting it to other things, that's a totally different ball-o-wax.
6) implement XML-RPC between two zope servers
For what purpose? Just to consume bandwidth? ;-) XML is NOT light-weight enough yet in my opinion to be used as a REAL RPC method. I'm sure this will change.
7) implement a mailing list from within Zope
Woah, different thing entirely. Check out Mailman (www.list.org), and there's some talk about implementing a sort of integration between the two, but that should be taken to them, not to the Zope people.
8) Product requests: a)web-board
Have you looked at confera?
b)mailing list
See above.
c)workflow
27 ton weight. But not impossible, but I'm not sure it belongs IN Zope, honestly.
d)project management
4000 ton weight which dropped properly causes all projects to fail :-)
9) Create a "serialized" XML export/import format so that for example I could email a zope site to a friend as a single file and have them "import" it. Sans images of course.
This is in the CVS repository, sorta... doesn't work for me, but Jim swears I just am using the wrong incantations :-)
Questions 1) When will the next version of Zope be released?
I'd say "soon", but I haven't seen it :-)
2) Could Zope use javascript sometime in the future? the JS reference implementation is open source as well, it could be incorporated...
Short answer, if you mean instead of Python... no, I suspect not. JS has no real capabilities that are comparable to the dynamic nature of Python last I knew --- but then I've never seen it used outside a web browser. It's really not a serious competitor. You'd have to duplicate all kinds of acquisition and other things, and then you might as well just write it all in Java... though I do have some ideas about integrating Java and Zope, but that's another issue entirely. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli ``Television is bubble-gum for | petrilli@amber.org the mind.''-Frank Lloyd Wright