[Zope] is there a more user friendly products repository ?

[Patrick Phalen]

[Jerome Alet, on Mon, 10 Apr 2000]
:: The current /Products folder is near useless if you want to download a lot
:: of products quickly: you have to click and click and click on several
:: links before accessing to the .tar.gz
:: 
:: It's hard to automate the downloading of the available products, but if
:: all of them (or direct links to the .tar.gz) were in a single folder it
:: would be much easier.

I agree that this could be improved. The current system seems designed
for the case of someone downloading only one Product. Its tedious if
you're bringing up a new Zope installation and want to populate it with
multiple products.

Having introductory text and news about Products segregated in the
Members area makes sense, but it would be nice if the tarballs
were all together in a single FTP directory. A good model (among many)
is http://www.redhat.com/errata/, where there is an HTML description of
each package and a link to a file in a central FTP directory. Then,
once you get the picture of what you want, you can use an FTP client or
wget to grab multiple files.

At one point Martijn Pieters made a web page with all Products on one
page, but I don't think it's up to date.