is there a more user friendly products repository ?
Hi, could someone tell me if a central repository exists with all Zope products in .tar.gz format easily available ? The current /Products folder is near useless if you want to download a lot of products quickly: you have to click and click and click on several links before accessing to the .tar.gz It's hard to automate the downloading of the available products, but if all of them (or direct links to the .tar.gz) were in a single folder it would be much easier. Does something like that already exist or not ? Wouldn't it be a good idea ? thanks. Jerome ALET - alet@unice.fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome Faculte de Medecine de Nice - http://noe.unice.fr - Tel: 04 93 37 76 30 28 Avenue de Valombrose - 06107 NICE Cedex 2 - FRANCE
[Jerome Alet, on Mon, 10 Apr 2000] :: The current /Products folder is near useless if you want to download a lot :: of products quickly: you have to click and click and click on several :: links before accessing to the .tar.gz :: :: It's hard to automate the downloading of the available products, but if :: all of them (or direct links to the .tar.gz) were in a single folder it :: would be much easier. I agree that this could be improved. The current system seems designed for the case of someone downloading only one Product. Its tedious if you're bringing up a new Zope installation and want to populate it with multiple products. Having introductory text and news about Products segregated in the Members area makes sense, but it would be nice if the tarballs were all together in a single FTP directory. A good model (among many) is http://www.redhat.com/errata/, where there is an HTML description of each package and a link to a file in a central FTP directory. Then, once you get the picture of what you want, you can use an FTP client or wget to grab multiple files. At one point Martijn Pieters made a web page with all Products on one page, but I don't think it's up to date.
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Patrick Phalen wrote:
for the case of someone downloading only one Product. Its tedious if you're bringing up a new Zope installation and want to populate it with multiple products.
Actually, I find it tedious when downloading one product <wry grin>.
Members area makes sense, but it would be nice if the tarballs were all together in a single FTP directory. A good model (among many)
This being Zope, I'd assume a Product for download is a Zope object with associated data, so there is presumably no reason someone couldn't build a Zope page that lists all the products, with links to the tarballs &c, that would automatically get updated as Products were added. Presumably it would be a Catalog search result, but I wonder if the Catalog contains the needed metadata, or if the result page would have to delve into the objects themselves... That wouldn't be as good as an FTP directory, but it should be pretty easy to implement on top of the existing structure. --RDM
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