Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

[Stephan Richter]

> > 1. We are building a wizard that asks you all the necessary questions
> > to generate a basic class framwework.
>
>Sounds exactly like my mk-zprod.

Cool. I am going to look at it as soon as I have a second to breath. Okay, 
okay, you got me....

I looked at the code pretty quick. I like it from the first view. It is 
very clean and easy to see the functionality. I think, if you can define an 
ZPI for your communication, then it will be no problem to put a SmartWizard 
Class Generator Front-End on top of this product.

> > If anyone is interested in helping developing that tool (which will be
> > released under the GPL as all of the iuveno products), then I can make
> > an electronic copy of my personal notes and I setup a CVS.
>
>If we are working to solve the same problem I'd love to lend a hand.  If
>you can, it would be great to see your personal notes.  mk-zprod is just
>an easy way to set up classes that are compliant to the Zope API, but I
>have some thoughts how one could make it into a pluggable api/language
>compliant-code-generator, but that might be overkill.  It's definantly an
>overkill :).

Well, the SmartWizard would be like the frontend for it. If you want to see 
an early non-SmartWizard-framework version, look at the ProiektorInstaller. 
Just imagine you can build installers like that in Zope. I hope to be done 
with the first version on Thursday.

I will upload the documents tomorrow though, since it is late here and I 
have to do some work still.

I think that we will be able to combine the two products easily, once the 
SmartWizard is in a semi-stable state.

Regards,
Stephan

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Stephan Richter
CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management