Re: [Zope-dev] Improving product management

2002-09-05 Thread Eron Lloyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Improving product management I think this is a great idea. A good way to start would be to have a tab on the Control Panel entitles Updates, that would make some XML-RPC calls

Re: [Zope-dev] Improving product management

2002-09-05 Thread Andy McKay
http://www.agmweb.ca - Original Message - From: Eron Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andy McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jeffrey Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Improving product management I

[Zope-dev] Improving product management

2002-09-04 Thread Jeffrey Chan
I'm sure this has been proposed a thousand times b4. Product management/download/installation really should be integrated into ZMI, kinda like what apt-get does now. All products is already sitting on a central repository (zope.org), all that's needed is a front-end and a standard packaging

Re: [Zope-dev] Improving product management

2002-09-04 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On Qua 04 Set 2002 15:31, Jeffrey Chan wrote: | I'm sure this has been proposed a thousand times b4. Product | management/download/installation really should be integrated into ZMI, | kinda like what apt-get does now. | | All products is already sitting on a central repository (zope.org), all |

Re: [Zope-dev] Improving product management

2002-09-04 Thread Andy McKay
Ive discussed this long ago and started off ZPM to do that. However at the time PyPPM wasnt done and distutils wasn't standard. My enthusiasm ran out and there was this work conflict thing ;) Zope.org doesn't really have a good product querying system, something like Gideon is sorely needed. |

Re: [Zope-dev] Improving product management

2002-09-04 Thread Eron Lloyd
I think this is a great idea. A good way to start would be to have a tab on the Control Panel entitles Updates, that would make some XML-RPC calls to Zope.org, and provide update and hotfix information when compared against your running server. Of course, how we know what is available is a good