Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-22 Thread J Cameron Cooper
Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote: Chris Withers wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: I've never met ppl who actually used the HelpSys so that's why I am raising the question about the value of the HelpSys. Lots of my co-workers work with Zope on different levels (scripters, product developers)...I've always

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-22 Thread J Cameron Cooper
Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote: Chris Withers wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: I've never met ppl who actually used the HelpSys so that's why I am raising the question about the value of the HelpSys. Lots of my co-workers work with Zope on different levels (scripters, product developers)...I've always

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-22 Thread Stefane Fermigier
Andreas Jung wrote: > Hi, > > for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding > components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is working on a proposal on > that issue. In addition I would like to get rid of some old stuff that > is no longer maintained and buggy: > > > - Z

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-22 Thread Chris McDonough
On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Andreas Jung wrote: --On 20. Dezember 2005 16:41:37 -0500 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Paul Winkler wrote: But I'm not sure I understand you. Are you saying that in order to use Basket, my product can't call registe

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-22 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 20. Dezember 2005 16:41:37 -0500 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Paul Winkler wrote: But I'm not sure I understand you. Are you saying that in order to use Basket, my product can't call registerHelp()? Or are you saying that when installed via B

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-21 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen
Chris Withers wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: I've never met ppl who actually used the HelpSys so that's why I am raising the question about the value of the HelpSys. Lots of my co-workers work with Zope on different levels (scripters, product developers)...I've always pointed them to the Zope Bo

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-21 Thread Martijn Faassen
Andreas Jung wrote: - HelpSys - from a programmers view pretty much useless and not very helpful. I consider to replace it with something more useful (not sure we can re-use apidoc from Zope 3 in some way, perhaps the inclusion of Dieter's Docfinder might be more useful for programmers)

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Jens Vagelpohl schrieb: > ... > IMHO it would be nice if the HelpSys could be changed so that it still > provides those Help! links, but the product author can simply assign a > URL to them to point to a place where they copied and pasted their docs > into a website. That's not too much of an i

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Chris Withers
Andreas Jung wrote: I've never met ppl who actually used the HelpSys so that's why I am raising the question about the value of the HelpSys. Lots of my co-workers work with Zope on different levels (scripters, product developers)...I've always pointed them to the Zope Book...the HelpSys was

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Chris McDonough
On Dec 20, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Paul Winkler wrote: But I'm not sure I understand you. Are you saying that in order to use Basket, my product can't call registerHelp()? Or are you saying that when installed via Basket, registerHelp() does nothing? That's fine. Yep, the latter currently... _

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:58:05PM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: > FWIW, I have zero plans to support a registerHelp that does anything > but "pass" or "warn" for Egg products. If people think that isn't a > reasonable thing to do, I may need to take my committment to > integrating eggs off

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Chris McDonough
On Dec 20, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Paul Winkler wrote: If so, the question then becomes: timetable and plan for deprecating HelpSys. I don't think we can simply rip out registerHelp() in 2.10 unless we have deprecation warnings in 2.9; and a useful deprecation warning requires something in place we ca

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:18:18PM +, Jens Vagelpohl wrote: > I would say the only benefit was the unification of docs for Zope and > installed third party products in one place, Good point! > and its "context- > sensitivity" for documenting screens in the ZMI when you're on them > by c

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 20. Dezember 2005 15:09:56 -0500 Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - additional information and story telling should be done through doc tests For general "what is this / what does it do / how does it work" docs, I like that idea. But it doesn't help with filling out forms in the

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:47, Andreas Jung wrote: --On 20. Dezember 2005 14:27:18 -0500 Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just to be clear, the stuff I'm talking about is ZMI user interface docs, not programmer docs. I'll raise the question again: what are the benefits of the HelpSys

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:47:34PM +0100, Andreas Jung wrote: > > > --On 20. Dezember 2005 14:27:18 -0500 Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >just to be clear, the stuff I'm talking about is ZMI user interface > >docs, not programmer docs. > > I'll raise the question again: what ar

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 20. Dezember 2005 14:27:18 -0500 Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just to be clear, the stuff I'm talking about is ZMI user interface docs, not programmer docs. I'll raise the question again: what are the benefits of the HelpSys for a Zope user? I just clicked through the HelpS

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 08:13:18PM +0100, Andreas Jung wrote: > > > --On 20. Dezember 2005 13:32:02 -0500 Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:24:32PM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: > >>Maybe if we don't want to bundle them, we could host them in a versioned > >

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 20. Dezember 2005 13:32:02 -0500 Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:24:32PM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: Maybe if we don't want to bundle them, we could host them in a versioned hierarchy on zope.org, like the way old versions of Python docs are always ava

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:24:32PM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: > Maybe if we don't want to bundle them, we could host them in a versioned > hierarchy on zope.org, like the way old versions of Python docs are > always available on python.org. ... which, duh, doesn't handle help for third-party pro

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:27:41PM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote: > I agree it would be helpful to have the > info that's currently in the helpsystem for builtin Zope products be > available somewhere else, though. I'm OK in principle with moving this stuff "somewhere else", and with properly d

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Chris McDonough
On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Andreas Jung wrote: Speaking of eggs, could you please add this to the 2.10 wiki? :-) Done... ___ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encodi

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 20. Dezember 2005 12:27:41 -0500 Chris McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Zope 2.10 , Products packaged as Python Eggs will need either to drop support for helpsys stuff or the helpsys stuff will need to be revamped support files living in zipfiles. The former sounds saner to me

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Chris McDonough
On Dec 20, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Paul Winkler wrote: - HelpSys - from a programmers view pretty much useless and not very helpful. I consider to replace it with something more useful (not sure we can re-use apidoc from Zope 3 in some way, perhaps the inclusion of Dieter's Docfinder might

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:52:02AM +0100, Andreas Jung wrote: > Hi, > > for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding > components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT??). Philipp is working on a proposal on > that issue. In addition I would like to get rid of some old stuff that is

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:43:18AM +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote: | +0 on Gadfly, I have no opinion there. | +1 on all else. I have proposed using sqlite/ZSQLiteDA in the past which is more like a real database, but still embeded, but people didn't like much the idea. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Sy

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Chris McDonough
+1 on all. On Dec 20, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Andreas Jung wrote: Hi, for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is working on a proposal on that issue. In addition I would like to get rid of some old stuff that is no lo

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
On 20 Dec 2005, at 06:52, Andreas Jung wrote: Hi, for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is working on a proposal on that issue. In addition I would like to get rid of some old stuff that is no longer maintaine

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Jürgen Herrmann
+1 on all of them On Tue, December 20, 2005 07:52, Andreas Jung wrote: > Hi, > > for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding > components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is working on a proposal on > that issue. In addition I would like to get rid of some old stuff t

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 12/20/05, Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding > components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is working on a proposal on > that issue. In addition I would like to get rid of some old stuff that is > no longer m

Re: [Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-19 Thread Dennis Allison
+1 on the lot if you are looking for votes. On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Andreas Jung wrote: > Hi, > > for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding > components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is working on a proposal on > that issue. In addition I would like to get ri

[Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

2005-12-19 Thread Andreas Jung
Hi, for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is working on a proposal on that issue. In addition I would like to get rid of some old stuff that is no longer maintained and buggy: - ZopeTutorial (could be ripped off