The Doctor What <docwhat@gerf.org> wrote:

I've been looking around for examples of certain objects and such. One simple example is a URL object. Zope.Org *has* this object (Link) and it is fairly nifty, even if it isn't documented (ie, it's usage etc.) but I can't find the *source* for this object anywhere!

All I want is to be able to have a Link object on my Zope engine, with possibly a minor change or two, but I can't find out where to get it anyplace.

The "Portal Toolkit product":http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK is intended to play the part you are looking for. The Zope.org site actually runs (for the near term) off a primordial form of the PTK. The PTK has a Link class which should be just what you are looking for (defined as a Python filesystem module), along with a UseCase ZClass (showing how to implement content types as ZClasses).

This isn't the only example. I have software that I want to distribute, but I can't get the source for the Software Product/Distribution objects either!

I can get the source for DTML Documents, but it doesn't do much good if they make extensive use of objects that I can't get the source for.

I would like to enter a plea for *someone* at DC/Zope.Org to fix this situation!

The SoftwareProduct/ProductRelease content types are *not* in the current PTK. I would guess that reimplementing them would require a relatively small amount of effort; in fact, we are planning to do that in the relatively near future. Tres. -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver tseaver@digicool.com Digital Creations "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.org