Re: [Zope3-Users] Syncing two attributes

2005-06-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > I've one attribute A which is exposed via the Interface. Another internal > attribute B should be in sync with it. So everytime A changes I want a > function to be called. > > I think (solving another error stands before testing it) with __setattr__: > > d

Re: [Zope3-Users] Excellent perspectives on Component Architecture by Jeff Shell

2005-12-21 Thread Shane Hathaway
Wade Leftwich wrote: Jeff Shell has written a couple of really good essays in his weblog: http://griddlenoise.blogspot.com/2005/12/zope-component-architecture-one-way-to.html http://griddlenoise.blogspot.com/2005/12/zope-component-architecture-interfaces.html I haven't seen these posts mentioned

[Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
Wade Leftwich wrote: If ZCML (a/k/a The Right Way) is keeping fairly smart developers from trying Z3, then maybe we need an alternative (a/k/a What People Think They Want). Are you sure ZCML is The Right Way? I know its purpose (since I helped invent Zope 3): to combine configurations by mult

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris McDonough wrote: I assume this means you've given up on the idea of creating a GUI ZCML configuration tool, the? No. In fact, I've been creating the tool for the purpose of convincing myself that ZCML is right, even though I still believe it's wrong. :-) One thing I've learned from t

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
[Shane] Are you sure ZCML is The Right Way? I know its purpose (since I helped invent Zope 3): to combine configurations by multiple developers without imposing a particular workflow. However, I maintain that Python code could do the job better. The Python code I have in mind is not the same a

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chris McDonough wrote: Is this code available anywhere or are you still at a state where you're not ready to release? It's one of the Z3 base projects: http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/zopejam/trunk/ It's not ready to release, and I've been busy on other projects lately. But I find it quite use

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
Florent Guillaume wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: Well, I wouldn't say the people I know "can't get past" ZCML. They're smart, and learning an XML schema is not a big effort. However, for someone coming from Java frameworks, yet another XML format is a big mark aga

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
[Florent] Time and again people fail to realize that Zope 3 wants to create the low level framework right first, and only after that add high level simplifications and shortcuts to have less configuration and provide fastest developer exeperience. Of course people aren't attracted to Zope 3

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-23 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jeff Shell wrote: I just believe - heavily - after many of my Zope 2 experiences that configuration as done by ZCML should be as separate from the code itself as possible. If it's going to be in the same programming language, it needs to be made clear what it is, what can be done, and what can NO

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-23 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jeff Shell wrote: And I think that's where I worry. With ZCML, name resolution happens very late. This seems to cut down on the problems that I've had with Zope 2 style configuration. If imports are in the top of the module, as most developers are used to doing, then they're executed as the mod

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was "Excellent perspective...")

2005-12-25 Thread Shane Hathaway
Alen Stanisic wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 11:25 -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: [...] ZCML is a great way of getting a quick overview on how things hang together. I agree, I found ZCML very useful when trying to learn how Zope3 components work. Oh humbug. Every time I've wanted to find so

Re: [Zope3-Users] Zope 3 Capacities

2006-01-19 Thread Shane Hathaway
Andreas Jung wrote: --On 19. Januar 2006 13:54:55 -0600 David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We're looking at 10-100 billion tx per year stored and performed. This would be 31-310 tx/second...forget the ZODB :-) Well, if those transactions just add to a log, ZODB could handle it on

Re: [Zope3-Users] Zope 3 Capacities

2006-01-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
David Johnson wrote: Today, alone, we've processed 15M TX in about 2 hours (2080tps), using a single MySQL server (not TTW), and MySQL just yawns. In our experience, only MySQL and Oracle are capable of doing this (and Oracle only in versions 9 and above). This is also why I ask so many RDBMS q

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: Re: Please Guido, pick me, pick me!

2006-02-02 Thread Shane Hathaway
Ron Bickers wrote: Today, I see the mess that a Zope 2 site can turn in to, so I started looking at Zope 3 again. The release announcements say it's ready for production use, but the website has no promotion of it whatsoever. You have to dig several levels deep to see any mention that it's no

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: Please Guido, pick me, pick me!

2006-02-03 Thread Shane Hathaway
Andreas Zeidler wrote: On Fri, Feb 03 17:24, Encolpe Degoute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zope 3 / Revolution ? well, how about "Zope3, Reloaded" for all the matrix fans out there? :) The idea of release code names adds a little spice. Most people like spices on their food, so why not on t

Re: [Zope3-Users] Visionaire! (All your problems, solved)

2006-03-02 Thread Shane Hathaway
Marko Mikulicic wrote: On 02.03.2006., at 12:41, Peter Bengtsson wrote: I'm with Max on this one. What's the point? To save a few megabytes of harddisk space? If you don't want the zope.bobo part of your zope3, ignore it. You don't have to use it if you don't want to. not sure of what to t

[Zope3-Users] PyWebOff

2006-03-02 Thread Shane Hathaway
Hello, I've been assigned to present Zope in a local upcoming Python user group meeting. As part of the assignment, I'm supposed to solve the PyWebOff challenge using Zope: http://pyre.third-bit.com/pyweb/challenge.html I'd like to do this using Zope 3. However, I'm really struggling. I

[Zope3-Users] Principal annotations

2006-03-08 Thread Shane Hathaway
Chapter 27 of the Zope 3 book and the docstring for IPrincipal in Zope 3.2 both suggest Zope has the ability to provide a browser view of principal annotations. That would be a really great bit of functionality to have! Unfortunately, AFAICT, the system doesn't work at all in Zope 3.2. The Zope

Re: [Zope3-Users] Principal annotations

2006-03-08 Thread Shane Hathaway
Shane Hathaway wrote: > Was this an accident? Did it work at one time? Are there plans to make > principal annotation views work again? And how can I edit user > annotations in the meanwhile? No one knows, I guess. After spending many days on a seemingly simple problem, I've

Re: [Zope3-Users] Principal annotations

2006-03-09 Thread Shane Hathaway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Dossis wrote: > Tom Dossis wrote: >> >> Shane Hathaway wrote: >>> Shane Hathaway wrote: >>>> Was this an accident? Did it work at one time? Are there plans to >>>> make >>>> pri

Re: [Zope3-Users] Principal annotations

2006-03-09 Thread Shane Hathaway
Tom Dossis wrote: > Shane Hathaway wrote: >> Thanks for helping me over a hurdle. You'd think a Zope 2 veteran like >> me would have little trouble with Zope 3 > > Maybe that has something to do with it. > > We switched from zope2/cmf/plone to zope3 early

Re: [Zope3-Users] PyWebOff

2006-03-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jeff Shell wrote: Argh. Darn that user group meeting being down in Utah Valley. Don't they consider the fact that there may be Utahn's who still try to cling to a car-free urban lifestyle notion (especially when they live and work on the same block)? :) Tell them to come up by my house. Terrific

Re: [Zope3-Users] ZODB storage ways

2006-04-03 Thread Shane Hathaway
Lennart Regebro wrote: On 4/3/06, Reinhold Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am searching for a way to change transparently the storage of ZODB from file-base to a relational database. In general, Zope books state, that this is possible. Yes. By changing the storage from FileStorage to som

Re: [Zope3-Users] More fun with WSGI/zope.paste

2006-05-08 Thread Shane Hathaway
Benji York wrote: Gary Poster wrote: "z" has also been proposed. :-) That strikes me as a good replacement for "z3c". What about "zf", for Zope Foundation? Shane ___ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Zope3-Users] Are we following the flow (Python 3)

2009-01-15 Thread Shane Hathaway
Roger Ineichen wrote: > I didn't say we should start the refactoring today or tomrrow. > But it whould be a good idea to talk about this painfull piece > of work. My personal wish is to see some dicussion about how > we do it instead of if we should do it now or later. The best thing to do now is

Re: [Zope3-Users] Are we following the flow (Python 3)

2009-01-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
David Pratt wrote: > Hi Shane, Roger and list. Personally, I think there needs to be > prioritization myself beginning with the essential packages to zca. zodb > would be next. I am not sure about anything else. My feeling is the rest > might need to be considered legacy. It would be unrealistic

Re: [Zope3-Users] How do I learn how to use Zope?

2009-06-17 Thread Shane Hathaway
Edward Zwart wrote: > Grok is not an option for this project Too bad, because Grok was made for you. :-) Zope 3.4 is not documented very well from a newcomer's perspective. Most of it only has reference documentation. Grok is Zope 3 plus narrative documentation and shortcuts. Another alternat