[ZDP] Some remarks about the portal design(s)

[Rik Hoekstra]

> 2. move the archives to a Zope based solution. This is really low
> priority though. It's a pain to make changes to them, but they do work
> on the whole. They're based on proven high-volume archiving and
> searching technology (Lotus Notes) and, although it would be fun to try,
> I haven't got the time or confidence to move it all into a ZODB and use
> a ZCatalog. Hopefully someone at DC is going to send me some copies of
> the CDs which were done with the list archives on them and then maybe
> I'll see...

Do you have an idea how you can integrate searching technology like
htdig in Zope ? Has anybody tried/succeeded at it? I guess we need a
new Subject: "Search Engine Integration" in the "Developers" portal :-)


[rh]Hm. By wrapping it, supposedly. There are usable tools for this in
python already, however. There is an ftp mirror script in the standard
distribution. There is also a sophisticated python linkchequer tool called
linbot (<url: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/linbot/> modelled after
linkbot I believe, but I do not know that). Licence is GPL.

Rik