On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 01:31:03AM -0800, Gabe Wachob wrote: ,----- | I wanted to ask the list what people's thoughts were on the | appropriateness of implementing a Slashdot-like site in Zope. This is the application that I have been looking at Zope for. I am thinking of something that is a cross between Slashdot and c|net. (Or you can think of it as Slashdot with a category hierarchy.) | I have looked at the Slashdot source code (in perl) and its pretty messy | (to put it mildy). I hacked at it to get it to work with the free Sybase | server on linux and it works reasonably well, but I haven't gone much | beyond that. I didn't even put in the effort to get the Slashdot code running after taking a look at it. | Finally, does the concept of a slashdot-like Product (or set of | products) interest anyone? Yes! I'd be interested in using/contributing to this. After seeing someone else's message, I took a look at HTML::Mason for perl, and that just does not have the same power that Zope does. | | -Gabe | | `----- Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor kid@ans.net / 734-214-7349