[Zope-Coders] WebDAV switches, seperate ports and testing.

[Shane Hathaway]

Toby Dickenson wrote:

>>>I'm surprised you would say this.  Zope 2 is very OSS friendly.
>>>Technical obstacles happen in every project, open source or not, Chris.
>>>
> 
>>However, because Zope 2 is very monolithic in feel, to fix this properly
>>sounds like it'd need lots of big changes.
>>
> 
> Remember that it *wasnt* open source when all of these components were laid 
> out. I think Chris is right, and Im sure Zope 3 will feel different.

Ah, good point.  (Although lots of other OSS projects also have a 
monolithic feel.)

Zope 3 has a new publisher, and the HTTP part is designed to allow you 
to plug in different HTTP "payload handlers".  Right now the only 
payload handler is the "web browser" payload handler.  We will also 
create a WebDAV payload handler and an XML-RPC payload handler, and 
maybe a SOAP payload handler.

Then we will possibly create an "autodetect" payload handler.  The 
autodetector gives you the equivalent of today's HTTP support.  It 
simply delegates to (or replaces itself with) one of the real payload 
handlers.

You'll be able to plug in whichever payload handler you want (per port) 
through configuration and/or programming.

Shane