At 6:24 AM -0400 7/21/99, Paul Everitt wrote:
Many of the pieces of Zope exist only as pure Python, such as the publisher, and other pieces have Python equivalents for the C codes, such as DocumentTemplate. The database, now that's a different story.
Unfortunately I'll give the standard line here -- if it becomes important for a consulting opportunity, we'll look at it. (Surprisingly Java seems more important to the industry analysts than potential paying customers.) Otherwise, we'll encourage a community effort.
Industry analysts and academics - in either case we're nonpaying rabble rousers :) In any case, I'm still trying to see how much of Zope I can get working through JPython.
I'm pretty shocked to hear a claim that Java is portable. Seriously, do the xBSD, Mac OS X Server, and other non-standard platforms have reasonable Java?
'Reasonable' is a good way to put it. I have run JPython out of the box with no problem both on the Mac OS 8.5 and MacOS X Server. That's portable enough for me. I have also compiled Zope with JPython on both of these platforms all the Python modules seem to compile fine. I'll report back when I see how much functionality I have this way, but considering the problems people have reported with getting Zope up on MacOS X Server, this does seem like a fast way to at least try out most of the pieces. Cheers, Michael ************************************************ Michael Rose Center for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark mailto:rose@tele.dtu.dk http://www.cti.dtu.dk/personal/rose Multimedia in the Home - http://mmhome.cit.dk 'and what is the use of a computer' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation' with apologies to Lewis Carroll *************************************************