[Zope] General information

[Michel Pelletier]

> 
> Notes is a _huge_ application, taking up significant resources.  I
> imagine a Zope binary distribution could fit on a floppy if we tried.
> 

The binary is a bit big (4+Mb) but a bzip'ed source release is only
900K.

> 
> Until the Catalog lands, our searchability story is poor.  Fortunately
> the Catalog, when paired with Z Classes and Property Sheets, 
> is turning
> out to be something that I think surpasses Notes' forms and searches. 
> This will be shown and LinuxExpo and released thereafter.  It will
> hopefully appear on zope.org before then.  And yes, it will 
> be below the
> line.
>  

'Below the line', BTW, means 'Open Source'.  Note that the indexing
machinery that all of our searchability is based on is Open Source right
now, and is included in 1.10.2.  It is *low level* however, which means
you have to get your hands dirty with some Python and you have to have a
pretty firm knowledge of indexing and searching in general.  The Catalog
Paul mentioned will be a nice high level interface so that you can put,
for example, a search box on your pages or do directory like
organizations, or both, Yahoo! style.

There is one feature of Zope that hasn't been mentioned yet in this
area, and that is the extensability of Zope+Indexing.  This means that
you can create an application any way you want, and customize the
searchability as well as the functionality of the actually application.
You are not forced to follow someone elses searching model, you are free
to create any indexes on anything in your application any time you want.
You can even index external data sources that come from SQL server or
IMAP mailboxes, for example.

-Michel

> > 5. The search in Lotus Notes is fast... How fast can Zope search?
> 
> 
> --Paul
> 
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