[Zope-dev] SOAP Support for ZOPE

[Florent Guillaume]

Richard wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:54 am, Aruna Kathiria wrote:
> > I did some work regarding SOAP support on ZOPE and published this
> > document on zope.org.
> 
> Is there really no interest in getting SOAP support into the Zope
> core? I've got a guy working on some Microsoft Word stuff at the
> moment, and he was dumbfounded when he discovered that Zope doesn't
> support SOAP. In his words, "everyone supports SOAP". Sigh :)

There is probably interest, but it needs motivated people like Aruna and
you to push it.

> Are there any objections to getting Aruna's patches into the 2.8
> codebase? I'd be willing to do the work - but note I know practically
> nothing about SOAP - I just want to be able to use it.

One problem is that Aruna's approach introduces dependencies to external
modules: fpconst, and a patched SOAPy. If these can be resolved, why
not.

Florent

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