[Grok-dev] Re: google app engine and grok

[Noah Gift]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com>
wrote:

> Kevin Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi Noah,
> >
> > Yup, I'm going to both the Google I/O plus the Hack-A-Thon in San
> > Francisco.
> >
> > There's a little talk in the Zope community about getting Zope3 GAE
> > enabled, but a few obvious hurdles jump out.
> >
> > * no filesystem write access (no zodb)
> > * no c-extensions (no persistence/no zodb/perhaps more)
> > * 1,000 file limit
> >
> > Stripping down Zope3 to the metal *may* be doable, but I don't detect a
> > strong will in the community to make it happen. It may be a lost opportunity
> > that we just don't have the resources to capitalize on, because it could be
> > a great thing for Grok. The Grok-way is so much easier than these other
> > frameworks.
> >
>
> I think there's enough interest in the community to see something like
> this happen sometime. I don't think it's going to happen fast. See this web
> log entry for more information about my thinking of porting Zope (and Grok)
> to different versions of Python:
>
> http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2008/04/14/0
>

Martijn,

Great blog post.  Hopefully we could do some work in that direction at our
bi-coastal sprint near the end of May...cough...Brandon..interested in
leading the Grok part of that :)  We should have quite a bit of information
after attending the Google I/O event.


>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
>
>
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