[Zope3-dev] Re: Re: Zope 3 web root

[Martin Aspeli]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:39:01 -0000, Sidnei da Silva  
<sidnei at enfoldsystems.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:30:29PM -0000, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> | So, I'm serving static content like Apache, I'm interpreting file types
> | like Apache and I'm using .htaccess files like Apache. But I'm using  
> Zope.
> |
> | Why am I not just using Apache?
> | Would I be learning this beast that is Zope?
>
> Because you want to use adapters? :)

For what, though? You want to build utilities etc, perhaps, but I would've  
thought that the usefulness of that idiom only applies when it's used  
across the board, including on your content objects. I suppose the  
Zope/Python object representation may have certain interfaces that you can  
use; perhaps that's enough. But how do you apply a marker interfaces, say,  
to something on the filesystem?

To be honest, I'm not sure I understand this well enough to give a +1 or a  
-1 or that it's really my place to do so. I just wonder that if the idea  
is that people should use this as a first step because the ZODB is too  
complex, well, then Zope itself is much more complex and they'd use Apache  
anyway.

Now, as for making it possible to provide views or mount points (whether  
top level or not) to filesystem data and have a sensible way of mapping  
that data into the Zope world with proxy pyhon objects and interfaces, I  
can see the point very much.

> One idea I want to try some time is making Zope 3 WSGI application
> work on Apache or IIS.

Interesting...

Martin

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