Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-05 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 10/4/06, Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the replies everyone! This all certainly helped me in deciding which direction to go. Well, that's all we can hope for at this point! :) -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-05 Thread Martijn Faassen
Derek Basch wrote: [snip] I saw that the zope-perl project is virtually dead and was hoping that some magical zope to perl bridge existed. Something that would allow me to use our existing perl code as an external method or someting similar. Forgive me if my zope terminology is a bit off as I

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-04 Thread Olavo Santos
From: Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 3 de October de 2006 18:54 Hello. Yes, the application is currently deployed but it is the gnarliest mess of ten year old spaghetti code you have ever seen. No session handling, no automatic CGI variable parsing, no authenticationno

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-04 Thread Derek Basch
--- Josh Burvill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, just noticed thats already been considered... On 04/10/06, Josh Burvill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is some info in zopebook 2.6 edition in the advanced scripting chapter:

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 10/3/06, Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have about a million lines of Perl code/crap that I would like to refactor to Zope. Is this even possible? Refactor? No. But it's quite likely that you can redo it quite quickly with Zope thanks to all the third-party products. What does you

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Derek Basch
--- Lennart Regebro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/06, Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have about a million lines of Perl code/crap that I would like to refactor to Zope. Is this even possible? Refactor? No. But it's quite likely that you can redo it quite quickly with Zope

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Jonathan
- Original Message - From: Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lennart Regebro [EMAIL PROTECTED]; zope@zope.org Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream? --- Lennart Regebro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/06, Derek Basch

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Derek Basch
--- Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lennart Regebro [EMAIL PROTECTED]; zope@zope.org Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream? --- Lennart Regebro [EMAIL

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Jonathan
- Original Message - From: Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; zope@zope.org Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream? --- Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Dieter Maurer
Derek Basch wrote at 2006-10-2 15:22 -0700: I have about a million lines of Perl code/crap that I would like to refactor to Zope. Is this even possible? I think I have seen a Python-Perl adapter (search for such a thing; I will not search for you). If you find one, you may be able to use Perl

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Marco Bizzarri
If I can provide any suggestion, take a look at Refactoring, by Martin Fowler, and start applying the refactorings there provided. This is not, I think a Zope/Perl/Python/PHP issue, but rather a refactoring/migration problem, and it should be explored in that places (just a suggestion, of

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 10/3/06, Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps refactor wasn't the best choice of words. The site is a very large online gaming website (not gambling). The legacy perl code does many, many things (administration, game play, accounting, message boards, publishing, mail, etc...) and

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Josh Burvill
there is some info in zopebook 2.6 edition in the advanced scripting chapter:http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/ScriptingZope.stx where there are some links in this chapter where it mentions activestate:

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-03 Thread Josh Burvill
Sorry, just noticed thats already been considered...On 04/10/06, Josh Burvill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is some info in zopebook 2.6 edition in the advanced scripting chapter: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/ScriptingZope.stx where there are some links in this

[Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-02 Thread Derek Basch
I have about a million lines of Perl code/crap that I would like to refactor to Zope. Is this even possible? It looks like the Zope-Perl project and everything else Perl related died long ago. Help me out here Zope gurus. Thanks! Derek Basch __

Re: [Zope] Legacy Perl code and Zope. A pipe dream?

2006-10-02 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 2. Oktober 2006 15:22:09 -0700 Derek Basch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have about a million lines of Perl code/crap that I would like to refactor to Zope. Is this even possible? By rewriting your code you can refactor everything. Your idea sounds like rewriting everything from scratch.