This is a *great* direction... but I'm fearing that it requires pretty high level design coordination. We need a Toolkit interoperation API. ;-) Do we need a committee? -steve
"Rob" == Rob Page <rob.page@digicool.com> writes:
[ deletia..] Rob> One of our biggest selling points for Zope is that people Rob> don't want the software to become their organization, they Rob> want their organization (at least the online part) to be Rob> manifest in some software. This is the design notion behind Rob> the Zope Portal TOOLKIT. We can't design The Portal -- what Rob> we can do is identify, through experience, recurring Rob> components and spend some infrastructure time developing and Rob> hardening those. For these reasons and consistent with other Rob> posts (Scott Robertson?) on this list I'd LOVE to see a Rob> ZCommerce TOOLKIT. Rob> If everyone writes their own primitive systems or, worse, Rob> writes their own monoliths, none of it will improve in the Rob> Zope Bazaar. If we all write using notions of toolkits the Rob> underlying components will get better and better over time. Rob> Don't know about you, but the notion of supporting my OWN Rob> cybercash adapter isn't too interesting... Rob> --Rob