-----Original Message----- From: Martijn Faassen [mailto:faassen@vet.uu.nl] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 10:26 AM To: Bryan J. Smith Cc: 'Zope List' Subject: Re: [Zope] [Project Idea] Looking ahead to the future of Linux ...

"Bryan J. Smith" wrote: [snip]

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Little and big internal projects aside, I was wondering if Zope could possibly fill a gap that will come about with Linux shortly. That gap is software distribution at the enterprise server to client level.

I'm not sure I understand what you want here, but perhaps interesting for you is the Trove project. Perhaps it's directed more to larger scale internet based distribution, though. Another problem is that as far as I know the project isn't progressing very quickly if at all (perhaps you can help).

I've even heard mention of ZTrove, which would be a Zope based Trove, if I understand well. I don't know what the status on that is.

Mind, I don't know a thing about Trove, just giving pointers in the hope it's useful.

Regards,

Martijn

Trove is sketches of code in Python (written by Eric Raymond) and ZTrove is vaporware, barely prototyped in bobo a few months ago when I was on the Trove list. It's unfortunate, since I felt that Trove was a great idea; the Internet hasn't reached the point of 'we need it now' in order to get some development behind it. Personally, I think Sunsite and RedHat should give us lots of money so we can write it. :) With Ken and I now in the Zope loop (Ken was one of the original Trove designers, and I was in on the GUI side of things, pushing what was at the time Bobo) we could probably bang something out sometime in the far future. We'd prefer someone in the community start it up because Paul and Rob have us booked sometime into the year 2011. -Michel

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