Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-08-01 Thread Michael R. Bernstein
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 23:17 +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > On 18 Jul 2007, at 22:34 , Maciej Wisniowski wrote: > >> I will add this to the zopeproject docs. I wonder: > >> > >> * Would it help if the 'myzopeapp' package would not be in the > top- > >> level MyZopeApp directory, but in a

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-26 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 18 Jul 2007, at 22:34 , Maciej Wisniowski wrote: I will add this to the zopeproject docs. I wonder: * Would it help if the 'myzopeapp' package would not be in the top- level MyZopeApp directory, but in a 'src' directory below MyZopeApp? Would that make it clearer where to go? * grokproje

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-19 Thread Gary Poster
On Jul 19, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: On 18 Jul 2007, at 19:25 , Kent Tenney wrote: on my W2K machine zopeproject MyZopeProject fails because I don't have Visual Studio installed and it wants to compile extensions for ZODB Right. Something seems to depend on ZODB 3

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-19 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 18 Jul 2007, at 19:25 , Kent Tenney wrote: on my W2K machine zopeproject MyZopeProject fails because I don't have Visual Studio installed and it wants to compile extensions for ZODB Right. Something seems to depend on ZODB 3.9.0-xyz now and we have no binary for that (yet). Sadly enough

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-19 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 19 Jul 2007, at 22:35 , Lennart Regebro wrote: On 7/19/07, Dieter Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But, Zope is quite easy on entry. Zope2, yes. Zope3? Not at all. Will modularizing Zope 3 make it easier for newbies? Not really, but with zopeproject or similar it shouldn't be more complic

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-19 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 19 Jul 2007, at 19:15 , Dieter Maurer wrote: and toning down Zope for an easier entry. But, Zope is quite easy on entry. To some, probably many, it is easy. At first. Then they discover the limits of TTW development and hit the wall of having to learn this completely new and different

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-19 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 7/19/07, Dieter Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But, Zope is quite easy on entry. Zope2, yes. Zope3? Not at all. Will modularizing Zope 3 make it easier for newbies? Not really, but with zopeproject or similar it shouldn't be more complicated either. In fact, the installation process migh

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-19 Thread Dieter Maurer
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-7-18 22:59 +0200: >On 18 Jul 2007, at 21:13 , Dieter Maurer wrote: > ... >> I prefer the standard approach: >> >> I see a framework -- Zope >> and a large number of application components that plug themself >> into the common framework. >> The applica

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Michael R. Bernstein
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:50 +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > * Would it help if the 'myzopeapp' package would not be in the top- > level MyZopeApp directory, but in a 'src' directory below MyZopeApp? > Would that make it clearer where to go? +1 > * grokproject actually also creates a

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Fred Drake
On 7/18/07, Philipp von Weitershausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not going to try to convince anyone to give it up, but I probably won't spend much energy in either promoting, maintaining and documenting it. Yay, Philipp! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "Chaos is the score upon which re

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 18 Jul 2007, at 21:13 , Dieter Maurer wrote: Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-7-18 01:13 +0200: ... Imagine you're writing a GUI application. Without question you'd use some sort of GUI toolkit (e.g. wxPython). Would you expect you would have to hook into the the "wxPython application"

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Maciej Wisniowski
> I will add this to the zopeproject docs. I wonder: > > * Would it help if the 'myzopeapp' package would not be in the top-level > MyZopeApp directory, but in a 'src' directory below MyZopeApp? Would > that make it clearer where to go? > > * grokproject actually also creates a "hello world" brow

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Dieter Maurer
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-7-18 01:13 +0200: > ... >Imagine you're writing a GUI application. Without question you'd use >some sort of GUI toolkit (e.g. wxPython). Would you expect you would >have to hook into the the "wxPython application" as a plug-in? Isn't it >more natural that

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 18 Jul 2007, at 12:26 , Maciej Wisniowski wrote: Maybe it is too fast for these questions but these are ones I had just after trying zopeproject: 1. What should I do after creating project? Where should I start writing my code? In one of folders created by zopeproject or maybe I'm just su

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
On 18 Jul 2007, at 11:22 , Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: - Please carefully weight boilerplate code against "black magic": For newbies, the generated code should on one hand be easily understandable, which means that there is no code in it that requires deep understandings of Zope3 internals. On

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Maciej Wisniowski
> > Feedback > > > As much as I see the library-driven approach replace the instance > approach, I see zopeproject as the way to get started with an > application instead of mkzopeinstance. I would like to ask everyone > who's interested in checking it out and give feedback, both on these

Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-18 Thread Hermann Himmelbauer
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2007 01:13 schrieb Philipp von Weitershausen: > Feedback > > > As much as I see the library-driven approach replace the instance > approach, I see zopeproject as the way to get started with an > application instead of mkzopeinstance. I would like to ask everyone > who

[Zope3-dev] RFC: zopeproject

2007-07-17 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
For the past weeks I've been toying around with egg-based installs of Zope and flexible WSGI-based deployment using PasteDeploy [1]. Both essentially challenge the concept of instances as we know them. What is an instance? * Start/stop scripts for a pluggable application