[Zope-dev] WebDAV Collection/Resource Chameleon Question

2003-12-08 Thread Eric Roby
We are trying to make a 'folderish' (WebDAV Collection) class appear as a WebDAV Resource to WebDAV clients. I won't go into the reasons why we want to do this unless someone is interested. We have made several attempts at this but have been unsuccessful to date. Rather than go into all the

Re: [Zope-dev] z3 sprint at pycon?

2002-12-21 Thread Eric Roby
) developer resources into this effort early next year. Eric Roby Eric you were talking about a Zope 3 Web Services sprint in March? There's likely to be a whole bunch of us at PyCon and with Brian just down the road, it might be a more suitable venue. -- Andy McKay

Re: [Zope-dev] Web Services Sprint???

2002-12-05 Thread Eric Roby
I am responding to this one at home ... so don't confuse the email address ... Sorry ... I agree ... have had some discussions with Steve Alexander and then with Brian and definitely only interested in Zope 3 (MVC) with a possibility (for us) of backporting components of it to Zope 2 if Zope 3

[Zope-dev] Web Services Sprint???

2002-12-04 Thread Eric Roby
There has been a (tiny) bit of chatter (over the last couple of months) regarding the status of Web Services in Zope. Would anyone be interested in focusing the chatter into a full blown sprint? We have at least three developers (here) that would be very interested. Eric

Re: [Zope-dev] Web Services Sprint???

2002-12-04 Thread Eric Roby
Andy, I (we) are located about about 45 miles east of New Orleans, situated on a NASA base. Eric Andy McKay wrote: Yes. Where are you located? I was thinking of organizing a west coast US sprint... -- Andy McKay - Original Message - From: Eric Roby [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Zope-dev] Web Services for Zope; what happened?

2002-10-31 Thread Eric Roby
Brian, I have been an active user of Zope for nearly two years. My current position affords me the opportunity to finally give something back to the community. I work for NOAA and Web Services will be a critical piece of our web architecture strategy this coming year. Our branch is located in

Re: [Zope-dev] Web Services for Zope; what happened?

2002-10-31 Thread Eric Roby
Andy, I wondered about that. I have been following some of the dialog on the Zope 3 dev list but it is unclear to me its status. We (my office) would like to have the Web Services capability by July/August time frame (earlier if possible), so don't know if that falls in line with a stable Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] how bad are per-request-write-transactions

2002-04-16 Thread Eric Roby
I developed a profiler service for a production site about 8 months ago. I essentially did what you are asking. I needed to see how customers were using the various navigational elements and other services provided within the site layout. The logging service could not give me a sense of the

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Are there Graphic Designers?

2002-04-05 Thread Eric Roby
I have been working with Plone now for a couple of days. I think your suggestion is an excellent one. It has very crisp/clean lines ... excellent implementation... I propose to base the Zope3 ZMI on the Plone CMF skin (designed primarily by the talented Alexander Limi and Vidar Andersen with

[Zope-dev] ZEO storage server zdaemon question??

2002-03-29 Thread Eric Roby
I am starting a ZEO storage server. Looking at start.py, unless I specify -s option (resets the z variable) the zdaemon runs by default (if I start it as root). However, when I start it I only see two nobody processes (running on a Linux box). In previous ZServer configurations, when started

[Zope-dev] ActiveState Python Distributions

2002-03-23 Thread Eric Roby
I am in the process of setting up a group of Zope servers (some ZEO and some not) using the INSTANCE_HOME technique. I am currently running a Zope 2.4.4b1 and Zope 2.5 (pointing to) on the latest ActiveState Python distribution release. They are ONLY development sites right now. The cluster I

[Zope-dev] OpenSSH configuration between ZEO clients storage server

2002-03-23 Thread Eric Roby
Anyone had any experience trying to secure the transactions between ZEO clients and a storage server??? Our shop is already using OpenSSH, I have read some introductory information about OpenSSH. It is just not clear to me the level of effort required to implement this or if implemented, will

Re: TF ZMI, was: RE: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 and OrderedFolders

2002-03-07 Thread Eric Roby
I think this is an excellent alternative to handle the UI aesthetics. The other part of this issue (for me) is the acquisition of these objects. Even if they are hanging out in the root, I would still like to be able to put templates in a template folder, scripts in a scripts folder etc... and

[Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 and OrderedFolders

2002-03-06 Thread Eric Roby
I think OrderedFolders is a great product and should be in the core ... but does this also mean that TransparentFolder will get those parts (that Shane mentioned some time ago) optimized that kept it from making it into the core before?? If so ... sounds like a win-win situation.

[Zope-dev] Squid Proxy VS LVS+Apache+ZEO

2002-03-05 Thread Eric Roby
I apologize (in advance) if this is on the wrong list but some of the previous discussions regarding these topics have been done here. I have read much of the documentation on Squid, the zope.org cluster configuration, and many of the excellent How-To's out there. However, my particular case

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.6 planning - call for contributors!

2002-02-28 Thread Eric Roby
Let's get a discussion started to define 2.6 I'd like to see the ZSyncer Product, or a variant thereof, included in Zope by default. That is, I'd like Synchronization, to a be a default property of Zope objects, so that objects/content can be pushed and pulled between two

[Zope-dev] OracleStorage Used in a Production Environment

2002-01-30 Thread Eric Roby
Is anyone successfully using OracleStorage in a production system or (better yet) as a storage server in a ZEO configuration ? It doesn't appear that any work has been done on it for nearly 18 months. Will OracleStorage work with the DCOracle2 product in support of 9i ? Thanks in advance Eric

Re: [Zope-dev] OracleStorage Used in a Production Environment

2002-01-30 Thread Eric Roby
Mathew Thanks for the quick response. My previous Zope project worked out great. I feel very comfortable with the speed and stability of ZODB. However, I was only managing 40,000+ objects. My new project has the potential of exceeding a million objects. That plus the fact that they (the

[Zope-dev] Extending Zope with Eiffel

2001-10-25 Thread Eric Roby
Ok ... don't laugh (too hard) yet. I know this sounds of blasphemy but let me explain. I spent many years as a meteorologist in the Navy. One tool that would have been invaluable to me (to provide better predictions and warning capabilities) is an expert system. I am sure NOAA probably has

Re: [Zope-dev] TALES in DTML

2001-07-13 Thread Eric Roby
YES YES YES ... THANKA-YOU THANKA-YOU THANKA-YOU... Evan Wrote ... I've been given time to work on draft documentation changes for: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/DTMLplusTALES If you're interested, now is the time to comment. Cheers, Evan @ digicool

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?)

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Roby
Chris McDonough Wrote: CatalogAware is arguably broken and should really not be used. In the meantime, if you care at all about cataloging, do not use CatalogAware. Instead, manage the recataloging yourself and don't uncatalog a changed object before recataloging it during this manual

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?)

2001-06-26 Thread Eric Roby
Erik Enge wrote on 26 June: If your application can't be written in five minutes and you expect to use it more than once, you shouldn't use ZClasses - IMO. The only argument for ZClasses (that I had at the time) was that it was very easy and fast to set up a couple of classes and some

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Problems with Transparent Folder and Zope 2.3.3

2001-06-22 Thread Eric Roby
Shane, I'm glad to know the product is being used. I don't think it will be in the core distribution since it causes a performance hit. Shane I use Transparent Folders HEAVILY in my site designs. There are some Gotchas' that I have learned to deal with regards to acquisition, but I find

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Problems with Transparent Folder and Zope 2.3.3

2001-06-22 Thread Eric Roby
Shane Hathaway wrote: If we're willing to start changing things at the C level, however, there are more options. Is this an effort that would ultimately move Transparent Folders into the Zope Core ??? Eric ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL

Re: [Zope-dev] [Announce] API Documentation Fishbowl Project

2001-06-06 Thread Eric Roby
Jimbo, I concur 100%. I am a Zope newbie (relatively speaking - since February) but I have been developing Web Information Systems since '95. My tool of choice was perl/CGI. I attended a DEVX conference in December of '99 and was introduced to Java Servlets and the J2EE spec. I knew this was

[Zope-dev] WEBDav - ZClass Problems

2001-06-03 Thread Eric Roby
I have two ZClasses, one with base class of CatalogAwareBase and ZDTMLDocument, the other with base class of _ZClass_for_Renderable and CatalogAwareBase. Manager role has the full set of permissions for the classes. ZInstances are created as expected, TTW. However, when I try to manage these

[Zope-dev] Simple ZClass Stuff

2001-05-26 Thread Eric Roby
I have been on this Zope journey since late February. Most times Zope has been like an artichoke, thorny on the outside but improves dramatically as you peel off the layers and can get to the meat. Other times (very few to date) Zope is like an onion, the more layers you peel off the more

[Zope-dev] Building a Zope Site from a Source Distribution

2001-04-19 Thread Eric Roby
Could anyone point me to documentation or instructions on how to build Zope to a particular version of Python. My goal is to understand the process so that I can do this on the Win32, Linux RPM and Solaris distributions (make directives, etc...). My first attempt will be focused on the Win32

[Zope-dev] ActiveState / DC Collaboration

2001-04-10 Thread Eric Roby
This is to the folks at DC; Will there be an effort to make Zope 2.3.x play with ActivePython 2.0 or is this a longer range goal ... Zope 3.x ??? I know there are alot of other irons in the fire but I am just trying to make some design decisions. I am bringing up multiple Zope sites in about