Re: [Zope] Generating products that perform a smart clone of a master site?
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:22:20PM +0100, Hamish Lawson wrote: Thanks for your reply. I hadn't thought of using ZWikiWeb, but given that I do need to make instances of a master site, do you think that this could be done using ZWikiWeb? Instead of inheritance for the folders, the mechanism I'm investigating now is prototypes (a la JavaScript and Self objects). Chris ment for ZwikiWeb to be an example of how a copy could be made. The ZwikiWeb implements such a construct. -- Martijn Pieters | Software Engineermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com/ | Creators of Zope http://www.zope.org/ | ZopeStudio: http://www.zope.org/Products/ZopeStudio - ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Generating products that perform a smart clone of a master site?
Hamish Lawson wrote: I envisaged turning a tutor's site into a product that could be instantiated. Hi Hamish, I'd suggest downloading the ZWikiWeb product from: http://www.zope.org/Members/chrisw/ZWikiWeb It does pretty much exactly what you're talking about. It's doesn't take very long to knock up a product like this and I don't think I even used ZClasses. My basis was the example stuff from the Zope Content Managers Guide. I'm guessing this is what you're trying to do. If you're looking into using inheritence (so for example, your tutor changes his example, which causes all the instances to be updated) then you'll need to use ZClasses. I have vague memories of the Zope Developers Guide covering this, if not, try BeeHive's ZClass guide. cheers, Chris ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] Generating products that perform a smart clone of a master site?
I'm exploring the use of Zope for creating learning environments in higher education. One of the requirements is for a tutor to be able to create a mini site that includes static files along with more active objects like discussion boards. Furthermore they need to be able to make different 'instances' of this site for use by different groups, such that each instance of the site conatins unique instances of any contained active objects (such as a discussion board). The obvious approach would be to just copy and paste the folder containing the master site, but there are a couple of problems with that: (1) changes to the master site will only be reflected in new instances of the site, and (2) a lot of static files could be getting copied each time. What I think I need to do is to develop a facility that makes a tutor's site into a product. Instantiating such a generated product should make a smart clone of the master site, smart in the sense that only active objects are actually cloned, but static files are shared among all instances of the site. I suspect that ZClasses might be involved to achieve this, but are there any issues with the fact that a master site could contain folders? Furthermore I'd like a tutor to be able to visit their productised site to update it, without seeing a lot of alien stuff; changes to the master site should be reflected in all instances of the site. Am I on the right lines here? Any pointers would be appreciated. Hamish Lawson University of St Andrews, Scotland Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
