On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 interrante@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
However, I would like to state that for the user base to expand significantly 2.0 needs to be very easy to install on a hosted website (http://www.hiway.com/) . This is where most of the new sites are coming from (check out the information from www.netcraft.com) People with hosted accounts have apache and cgi and want a trivial way to set up and get content online (Frontpage does a good job here). Please consider this a *massive* potential audience for this tool and build simple configuration scripts, yada, yada, that make this a trivial task. Comments?
I agree! My "vision" for Zope is cross-platform "plug 'n 'play" binaries which can snap into place and work. This also means a universal make / build system and distrib generator (self-installing binaires for Windows, tgz+sh scripts for unix). It also means an _easy_ way to compile / install extensions such as the PiL. Finally, it means reverse-engineering Office 2000's web extensions and putting them into Zope! Cheers, Anthony Pfrunder