Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-05 Thread Jim Fulton
I'll make some small comments below, but I want to make a big comment to start. Zope 2 and Plone are both examples of extensible applications. In my note, I was trying to make the point that I think such applications have value. I'd like to see them exist. I'd like to see them done well. I

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-05 Thread Jim Fulton
Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances [...] I should note that there have been a number of sucessful Zope 3 applications that were not the OFS. In fact, some of the earliest

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-05 Thread Jim Fulton
Chris Withers wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: None of this should be taken as any sort of edict. I'm also not trying to name anything. While I'd love to spur discussion, I hope not to start any arguments. :) On that front, I'll note that I've seen 3 patterns emerge in the projects I work on: 1.

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-05 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:29:03AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances [...] I should note that there have been a number of sucessful Zope 3

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-05 Thread Jim Fulton
Martin Aspeli wrote: ... Anyway - I hope these perspectives are useful. I'm certainly not disagreeing with what you're saying or with the direction you're pointing out. I think we just need be mindful that there were some good things about the past approaches as well as problems (not that

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-05 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:07:08PM +0100, Brian Sutherland wrote: That's interesting. As a developer, I like things to be self contained. Most Unix system administrators I know want me to follow standard Unix file-system layour conventions (e.g. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/). Wearing

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-04 Thread Martin Aspeli
Jim Fulton wrote: Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances I found this very interesting. As more of an indirect consumer to Zope 3 (but user of Zope 3 via Five and developer of Plone on Zope 2), here are some of my own thoughts. In the Zope2/CMF/Plone world, we

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-04 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances [...] I should note that there have been a number of sucessful Zope 3 applications that were not the OFS. In fact, some of the earliest production Zope 3

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-04 Thread Stephan Richter
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 17:12, Jim Fulton wrote: In summary, I'm seeing Zope 3 applications as separate entities from   the OFS.  The OFS application isn't something we'll use directlty.   Instances will be instances of our applications, not of Zope 3. I should note that there have been

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-04 Thread David Pratt
I'll be happy to see the complete eggification - the sooner the better. The only issue I see as a possible negative is that it may be hard for folks to visualize z3's potential. AFAIK the framework approach has not negatively impacted Twisted that has some documentation and a book but no core

Re: [Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-04 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: None of this should be taken as any sort of edict. I'm also not trying to name anything. While I'd love to spur discussion, I hope not to start any arguments. :) On that front, I'll note that I've seen 3 patterns emerge in the projects I work on: 1. Development: lots of

[Zope3-dev] Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

2007-01-03 Thread Jim Fulton
Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances I'd like to share some thoughts about what Zope 3 is (to me), what a Zope 3 application is, and what a Zope 3 instance is, or should be. I think this should influence our thinking about Zope 3 releases and tools we create,