Hello, I'm struggling to learn Zope 1.10.3 running on my Debian Linux 2.2.10 box. I have a few questions: Issue 1. How do I get Zope to timestamp my modified document?
From the User Guides I've downloaded, I can do this within a document to call on the "Id" or the "title" of a document:
<!--#var id_or_title--> But I understand I am unable to use the "Last Modified" or "Size" properties from my workspace. It would be nice if I could do something like this in my documents: Last modified on <!--#var last_modified-->. What is the workaround for this? Issue 2. Am I the only one to see that the keyword search function for the archived mailing list is sort of useless? I prefer a more powerful engine considering the question above is a simple question for most of you here. Issue 3. Are there any better documentation guides than the user guides posted on the Zope site? Of course I am generalizing here but I see the biggest problem with Open Source software is that the documentation seems to be lacking. Unless someone gets in early with the software development, the learning curve for simpletons like us are quite long. Thanks, -james-
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, James W.Y.F. Chan wrote:
Issue 3. Are there any better documentation guides than the user guides posted on the Zope site? Of course I am generalizing here but I see the biggest problem with Open Source software is that the documentation seems to be lacking. Unless someone gets in early with the software development, the learning curve for simpletons like us are quite long. Well there is the ZDP, that is writing ZBook. Basically, ZOPE is ``difficult'', because it does have a complete different philosophy than most other Websolutions.
IMHO, to understand ZOPE completely, one should -) know fairly well Python, -) have seen the components of Zope in seperate action, -) experience in thinking different ;) Well it's just my opinion, but I do notice, that most often the best C programmers tend to know at least one assembly language ;) Yes, somehow ZOPE does lack a bit of documentation. But then, you do get the Python source code, which is often combined with the power file utilities Unix provides (grep, xargs, find, diff, etc.), the best reference. Well it helps to be able to read Python and potentially C (for the more convulated questions). Andreas -- Andreas Kostyrka | andreas@mtg.co.at phone: +54/1/7070750 | phone: +43/676/4091256 MTG Handelsges.m.b.H. | fax: +43/1/7065299 Raiffeisenstr. 16/9 | 2320 Zwoelfaxing AUSTRIA
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