[Zope] RE: Thread subjects

[Alexander Staubo]

Sorry for posting a private email to the Zope list. I have NO IDEA how
it got here -- a case of premature senility, perhaps.

--
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go
away."
--Philip K. Dick

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexander Staubo [mailto:alex@mop.no]
>Sent: 4. juli 1999 03:07
>To: Zope Mailing List (E-mail)
>Subject: [Zope] RE: Thread subjects
>
>
>They forecast "three weeks" until the beta will be available.
>
>The alpha is already apparently quite stable, this despite the
>fact that
>I have not yet gotten the alpha working on our Linux box yet. :-/  I
>strongly believe it has something to do with our setup rather than Zope
>itself, but it's hard to tell.
>
>Zope does not really change any functionality as much as it brings new
>stuff. And even on that point the two biggest changes are:
>
>- a better object database system, with support for multiple database
>backends (such as Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle) and concurrency
>(meaning several people can view a page exactly
>simultaneously; this may
>surprise you, but that isn't possible in earlier releases!).
>- support for classes (which is already in the 1.11.0 preview release
>I'm working with; a let me tell you, that's one really stable preview
>release!)
>
>The big thing that _does_ change things comes with the Portal Toolkit,
>but again this is simply about new features that we can exploit but --
>until it does arrive -- have to implement ourselves. Mostly this
>involves memberships. And we can certainly implement all that without
>ZPT for the beta, I think.
>
>Does this help?
>
>--
>Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
>"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go
>away."
>--Philip K. Dick
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: slavine@post.harvard.edu [mailto:slavine@post.harvard.edu]
>>Sent: 4. juli 1999 02:49
>>To: Alexander Staubo
>>Subject: RE: Thread subjects
>>
>>
>>How long until "Zope 2" is fully up and running (I forget
>what you keep
>>calling this new Zope thing).  I'd hate to work things out and
>>then have to
>>change them all around because of new functionality.
>>
>>
>
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