At 08:17 13-6-99 , Alexander Staubo wrote:
I second the idea!
The contribution page right now is pretty tight -- a first-time user will have no idea, for example, what "TinyTables" is by looking at the page. Reorganizing the software part of zope.org better would not only be functional, but also serve as a nice example of a dynamic Zope-built web section. And why not mix supported and unsupported software? It would be cool if most Zope tools and products -- including database adapters and components -- could be put in the same hierarchy.
This was the idea all along, I think. It think it's part of the plan for the reworked Zope site, on which DC is working as we speak. The contributions page does say: 'The archive is very basic and experimental right now--just a bunch of files objects in a folder. In the future we'll switch to a system that scales better' The Community page says (and has been saying this for a long time): 'We are developing a contributed code archive. We are planning on using Michel Pelletier's ZTrove. In the mean time we have a temporary contrib' area available' ZTrove is the Zope version of Trove, a 'distributed archiving system for use at large software archive sites' written in Python, which seemed to have stopped generating code and noise about a year ago (http://tuxedo.org/~esr/trove/). I think if you search the Zope archives, you'll find Michel's explantion as to why it stopped. The archives of the Trove-Dev list ((http://www.python.org/pipermail/trove-dev/) yield some information on this: http://www.python.org/pipermail/trove-dev/1999-March/000500.html So don't despair, improvement is on the way. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------