[Zope] What's Amos ?

[Richard Jones]

[Paul Jackson]
> Last week, Christopher Petrill wrote, from the conference:
> 
> > Michel and Chris took a gargantuan dataset
> > from Amos (the RPM database as RDF) 
> 
> Does anyone have any further references to Amos?
> 
> It seems to be something that would be useful to some work
> I'm embarking on (indexing some RPM's, using Python and Zope
> technologies), but I can find no other mention of Amos.

   Amos is the latest generation Python-bot (for other Python-bots, see 
python-list@python.org or comp.lang.python, eg. /F-bot and Tim-bot). He's fully 
implemented using a new XML version of DTML and Jim Fulton's highly 
experimental ZODB-4 which has the facility to use fuzzy logic in object 
lookups. This means that sometimes Amos-bot can send messages to this mailing 
list which seem completely non-sensical. He covers this fuzziness by referring 
to a thing he calls 'Zope Zen', implying only those who have 'Zope Zen' 
(perhaps this is the DC-internal code name for ZODB-4?) can understand him.

    Hope this clears things up.

 
       Richard