Agreed. This would enable me to at least treat my TTW code and my on-disk stuff (Python products, ext. methods) roughly the same and use tools I am already used to using for IDE use; that is not to say that I wouldn't want an IDE, but that I am willing to wait. Zope already has a one up in terms of development ease over other competing popular development technologies like Java, because there is no compilation involved to get a my python code working (and there are no other big steps if using the 'refresh' product to reload products). Sean -----Original Message----- From: Martijn Faassen [mailto:faassen@vet.uu.nl] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 8:30 AM To: Paul Everitt Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Q: Verifying the poll numbers [Zope IDE or not] Another comment: A project much more interesting than a Zope IDE to me was discussed at the Python conference: mirroring Zope objects onto the filesystem (and a good API for developers to add such support to their own products). This would enable things like grep, cvs, your favorite editor, etc, and probably also a mass of desires people would like an IDE for would be taken care of. It could also form the basis of IDE projects later on. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )