Re: [Zope3-dev] Changes to zope3 windows binary installer

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Withers
Tim Peters wrote: The bad news is that Martin is an extremely capable PhD who worked on this across months; i.e., this was a major undertaking. The good news is that large parts of it are probably easily reusable -- by Martin ;-) Can we tempt him with beer to build a purdie one for Zope too?

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Content Providers and Viewlets

2005-10-17 Thread Dominik Huber
Hi Stephan, I just looked at the examples. I like the current implementation much more, because a viewlet is adapted to its original context (- complex example) and content providers (or viewlet managers) can render itself. Those changes are providing a better encapsulation and a more ca-like

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Content Providers and Viewlets

2005-10-17 Thread Gary Poster
On Oct 17, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Dominik Huber wrote: ... IMO it is very important to provide a standardized way to handle complex, formbased views properly (- prefix like nested widgets) Agreed. FWIW, this is another part of the subview package. I tried to spell this out very explicitly.

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Content Providers and Viewlets

2005-10-17 Thread Stephan Richter
On Saturday 15 October 2005 15:48, Gary Poster wrote: viewlets look like a clever pattern. I can see that they can be applied to many use cases; I'll have to think about them to see how much I like the application compared to others we have used, but I have a generally favorable impression so

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Content Providers and Viewlets

2005-10-17 Thread Stephan Richter
On Saturday 15 October 2005 15:48, Gary Poster wrote: The rough README is here:  http://svn.zope.org/Zope3/branches/ f12gsprint-widget/src/zope/subview/README.txt?view=auto .  The whole   package is rough; I had to put work on this aside, but it it is   currently slated to be my next project,

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Content Providers and Viewlets

2005-10-17 Thread Gary Poster
On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Stephan Richter wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 15:48, Gary Poster wrote: I also really wish we could agree on a subview-addressing story (for AJAX) and a drag-and-drop story. We have experience with our drag and drop story, and are proposing a new AJAX

Re: [Zope3-dev] how to create a release tarball from svn-checkout of Z3.1.0?

2005-10-17 Thread Mark R. Biggers
Thank you Fred. Read the Friendly Zope3 Site, ha! Your response does beg the question though - of the packages on the branch *not* included in the Z3.1.0 release, which are considered to be optional-good and optional-not-ready-for-prime-time? I have read that SchoolTool/Schoolbell needed