[Zope] Software for Zope

[Martijn Pieters]

At 08:17 13-6-99 , Alexander Staubo wrote:
>I second the idea!
>
>The contribution page right now is pretty tight -- a first-time user
>will have no idea, for example, what "TinyTables" is by looking at the
>page. Reorganizing the software part of zope.org better would not only
>be functional, but also serve as a nice example of a dynamic Zope-built
>web section. And why not mix supported and unsupported software? It
>would be cool if most Zope tools and products -- including database
>adapters and components -- could be put in the same hierarchy.

This was the idea all along, I think. It think it's part of the plan for
the reworked Zope site, on which DC is working as we speak. The
contributions page does say:
 'The archive is very basic and experimental right now--just a bunch
  of files objects in a folder. In the future we'll switch to a system 
  that scales better'

The Community page says (and has been saying this for a long time):
 'We are developing a contributed code archive. We are planning on using
  Michel Pelletier's ZTrove. In the mean time we have a temporary contrib'
  area available'

ZTrove is the Zope version of Trove, a 'distributed archiving system for
use at large software archive sites' written in Python, which seemed to
have stopped generating code and noise about a year ago
(http://tuxedo.org/~esr/trove/). I think if you search the Zope archives,
you'll find Michel's explantion as to why it stopped.

The archives of the Trove-Dev list
((http://www.python.org/pipermail/trove-dev/) yield some information on this:
  http://www.python.org/pipermail/trove-dev/1999-March/000500.html

So don't despair, improvement is on the way.



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