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

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Patrick Phalen wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I find it tedious when downloading one product <wry grin>.

> 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)

This being Zope, I'd assume a Product for download is a Zope
object with associated data, so there is presumably no reason someone
couldn't build a Zope page that lists all the products, with links
to the tarballs &c, that would automatically get updated as Products
were added.  Presumably it would be a Catalog search result, but
I wonder if the Catalog contains the needed metadata, or if the
result page would have to delve into the objects themselves...

That wouldn't be as good as an FTP directory, but it should be
pretty easy to implement on top of the existing structure.

--RDM