[Zope] zope for intranet?

Martijn Pieters mj@digicool.com
Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:48:55 +0100


On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:23:29PM +0100, Tom Deprez wrote:
> Yo Eric,
> 
> Today I received a message that WorldPilot has a new site, which is
> www.worldpilot.nl (it's closer to your country :-) )
> This morning the link didn't work, but I just tried it and now it works.
> 
> To all who don't know it yet : Worldpilot has a new site : go to
> www.worldpilot.nl

That site is not new; it is as old as the original .org and .com sites. It
is hosted by the Dutch distribitor of the Net appliances that WorldPilot
originally was developed for.

I am assuming that they still are selling/renting out appliances with
WorldPilot on it and want to be able to show of WorldPilot.

I don't think that worldpilot.nl should be seen as the official WorldPilot
development site at all though.

> 
> > [*SCHNIPP*]
> > > I recommend searching Zope.org for some
> > > products which will
> > > do what you want and more, for example WorldPilot.
> >
> > I've tried to locate the worldpilot product for the last 2 months, but
> have
> > been unable to. At first the site linked to by zope.org and zope treasures
> > gave a 'server not found'. Now they link to a sourceforge project with no
> > released files. I found this very strange, and was expecting a comment on
> > this list, but i haven't seen any yet. Thought i'd point this out, as it's
> > bound to confuse the person who asked the question, as it did me. (If they
> > read this, I would recommend Zope to them. I'm still pretty much a newbie,
> > but i've benefited from Zope and it's community enough that i don't even
> > want to look back on the way i developed web-apps before. All of what you
> > indicated is very possible in Zope.)

IIRC, the original developer behind WorldPilot left the company when they
switched names/were taken over/whatever happened, and placed WorldPilot on
SourceForge. Nothing much has happened since.

There are alternatives. Search for 'Amphora' and 'ZopeGUD'.

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Martijn Pieters
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