Perhaps I misunderstand the issue, but a few months back Kapil repackaged DirectoryViews for use outside the CMF... http://www.zope.org/Members/k_vertigo/Products/FileSystemSite -----Original Message----- From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:26 AM To: Elena Schulz Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] CMFCore.DirectoryView Elena Schulz wrote at 2003-1-3 09:47 +0100:

I found how they did the registration for fixed directories in the __init__.py's, but how to do it for directories that will be arbitrary? They can be arbitrary but they can not be modified/defined "through the Web". You must change something in the file system.

You can have a general "__init__.py" that registers all directories it finds by some means (e.g. via a configuration file). Also, note, that with one directory all subdirectories can also be accessed.

How would one remember them and read them in the _init__.py of a product. This, too, would be possible. But I do not know whether you should go this way.

When you really want, you can search for a product that provides for configurable startup scripts. It allows you to put scripts in a special Zope folder that are called automatically when Zope starts. I forgot the name of this product...

But for the extensions is it either "registerFileExtension" or "registerMetaType", not both? It is usually "registerFileExtension" and not "registerMetaType".

I thought you would have to register a list of extensions for every new metatype? And to make them persistent they have to be registered the same way on every serverstart I guess? Yes.

The same said for directories above applies for file extension.

By the way wouldn't it have been much better and not so much more work to have implemented a general purpous persistent DirectoryView than just a limited one for CMF? Maybe.

"DirectoryView" has just been implemented for the CMF. That we use it outside was probably not forseen...

I think to keep the data.fs slim and for other applications it is a very useful enhancement of Zope (and improvement over localFS). As a newbie in generating products I don't want to start with such a project. Then you will need to wait until someone else modifies "DirectoryView" to work somehow like "LocalFS".

It would probably be difficult but most people can probably live with "DirectoryView" as it is now... Dieter _______________________________________________ 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 )