Re: [Zope3-dev] The vision thing

2006-03-07 Thread Jake
On Mar 6, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Andrew Sawyers wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 09:45 +, Stefane Fermigier wrote: Benji York wrote: Geoff Davis wrote: * What can we learn from Rails / Django / TurboGears? Fun presentation along those lines: http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov I

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Chris McDonough
My $.02: I suspect it might be better to just use XML than configparser as a ZConfig replacement. The config format is a stretch under CP due to the lack of hierarchy. I'm beginning to think the don't make admins use XML argument should die. Everybody knows how to edit XML nowadays,

Re: [Zope3-dev] Two visions

2006-03-07 Thread Chris McDonough
On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Jake wrote: I think it is a huge mistake to lose Zope branding. After years of building up momentum behind a project, to head off into some strange developer code speak is just going to lose people who are not intimately involved. The world, after many years,

Re: [Zope3-dev] Two visions

2006-03-07 Thread Jake
On Mar 7, 2006, at 6:56 AM, Chris McDonough wrote: On Mar 6, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Jake wrote: I think it is a huge mistake to lose Zope branding. After years of building up momentum behind a project, to head off into some strange developer code speak is just going to lose people who are not

Re: Movies, audiences, wasted effort, was Re: [Zope3-dev] The vision thing

2006-03-07 Thread Martijn Faassen
Paul Winkler wrote: [snip] I'm hoping to see a similarly interactive, yet long-term-sane, working style evolve for in zope 3. Maybe we'll get there with Persisent Modules and fssync. This is an issue that's important to me, and to Jim. We had a discussion about all of this in various

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris McDonough wrote: My $.02: I suspect it might be better to just use XML than configparser as a ZConfig replacement. The config format is a stretch under CP due to the lack of hierarchy. I'm beginning to think the don't make admins use XML argument should die. Everybody knows how to

[Zope3-dev] Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Stephan Richter
Hi everyone, I usually do not send messages like that, but in light of the recent discussions about vision, viewing this will give us all some perspective on what people are looking for: http://theploneblog.org/archive/2006/03/02/faster-better-cheaper I think currently Zope 3 would end up a

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 7. März 2006 06:51:00 -0500 Chris McDonough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My $.02: I suspect it might be better to just use XML than configparser as a ZConfig replacement. The config format is a stretch under CP due to the lack of hierarchy. I'm beginning to think the don't make admins

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Stephan Richter wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 12:28, Andreas Jung wrote: Writing a parser for some kind of INI format or ZConfig-style parser is an engineering task for an average programmer..I think we should discuss the framework and not a particular format (I agree with Dieter: it's

[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Max M
Shane Hathaway wrote: Chris McDonough wrote: My $.02: I suspect it might be better to just use XML than configparser as a ZConfig replacement. The config format is a stretch under CP due to the lack of hierarchy. I'm beginning to think the don't make admins use XML argument should die.

Re: [Zope3-dev] Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Stephan Richter wrote: I usually do not send messages like that, but in light of the recent discussions about vision, viewing this will give us all some perspective on what people are looking for: http://theploneblog.org/archive/2006/03/02/faster-better-cheaper I think currently Zope 3 would

Re: [Zope3-dev] Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 13:27, Shane Hathaway wrote: Part of the problem is that Zope 3 makes too great a distinction between developers and scripters.  Successful scripters become developers, and developers often act as scripters.  I think the use cases need to see scripters and developers

Re: [Zope3-dev] Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Stephan Richter wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 13:27, Shane Hathaway wrote: Part of the problem is that Zope 3 makes too great a distinction between developers and scripters. Successful scripters become developers, and developers often act as scripters. I think the use cases need to see

Re: [Zope3-dev] Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 13:43, Shane Hathaway wrote: My vision for the WebDev project is that you can develop WebDev packages using Zope 2 like features, but the result of the Web development can be generated into a real Python package. That might work, but the story breaks down if the

Re: [Zope3-dev] Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Stephan Richter wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 13:43, Shane Hathaway wrote: My vision for the WebDev project is that you can develop WebDev packages using Zope 2 like features, but the result of the Web development can be generated into a real Python package. That might work, but the story

[Zope3-dev] Re: Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Everitt
Shane Hathaway wrote: It is a beautiful story and I dearly want it to work. But the story currently has major limitations; developers reach a point where they have to make a big switch, learn numerous libraries, and rewrite a lot of their code. How can we fix that? Part of the problem is

Re: [Zope3-dev] Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:27:48AM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: Part of the problem is that Zope 3 makes too great a distinction between developers and scripters. Successful scripters become developers, and developers often act as scripters. +1. The distinction is arbitrary and fluid. I

[Zope3-dev] Re: Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Everitt
Shane Hathaway wrote: Stephan Richter wrote: My vision for the WebDev project is that you can develop WebDev packages using Zope 2 like features, but the result of the Web development can be generated into a real Python package. That might work, but the story breaks down if the developer

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Paul Everitt wrote: I still don't think scripters and developers are the same people. I won't repeat Dan's arguments here, but I think his essay is a valuable read for understanding an audience that isn't like most zope3-dev people. Once again this comes down to differing visions. Is Zope

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Dieter Maurer
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2006-3-7 01:16 +0100: Dieter Maurer wrote: ... While ZConfig allows you the describe related material together and without indirections, the ConfigParser format forces you to introduce indirections and to spread related definitions over a longer area. Yes,

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Dieter Maurer
Fred Drake wrote at 2006-3-6 14:16 -0500: ... When Tres and I added this, we planned specifically to see how it was received by the Zope 2 community. At least, I like it. ... That said, I don't think Jim's concerns are limited to the Zope configuration schema, but extend to configurations that

[Zope3-dev] Re: Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Everitt
Shane Hathaway wrote: Paul Everitt wrote: I still don't think scripters and developers are the same people. I won't repeat Dan's arguments here, but I think his essay is a valuable read for understanding an audience that isn't like most zope3-dev people. Once again this comes down to

Re: [Zope3-dev] Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 3/7/06, Stephan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think currently Zope 3 would end up a little bit better than J2EE, but not much. I think it would be better than that. To do Hello World you need to define a browser:page for=* template=thetempate.pt permission=zope.View / One situp, no

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Mandatory Viewing!

2006-03-07 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Paul Everitt wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: Stephan Richter wrote: My vision for the WebDev project is that you can develop WebDev packages using Zope 2 like features, but the result of the Web development can be generated into a real Python package. That might work, but the story breaks