FWIW, I'd be keen on seeing a bobolike Zope 3 derivation that
included none or very little of zope.app, but that allowed you to
configure an instance to publish a single arbitrary root object but
assumed nothing else. I think the "filesystem traverser" root object
could be one kind of root object. CherryPy is a bit like this now.
- C
On Feb 9, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
An idea just occurred to me. I think others have probably had
similar ideas, but didn't express it in the right place or time.
Part 1: Let's put an Apache-like web root (similar to /var/www/
localhost/htdocs/) in Zope instance homes. It might be called
"browser" or "www". Zope will serve pages out of that web root
rather than an object database.
Part 1 rationale: When people create a Zope instance home, they
create some config files and an object database. The root of the
site is served out of the object database. To change the default
page, newbies are directed to create a default page in the object
database. The user didn't ask for an object database. The use of
an object database should be a choice, not a requirement. Now the
user has to learn some extra tools (fssync, etc.) in order to put
the files under version control. I think the user experience for
both newbies and experts would be much better if the root of the
site were served from a filesystem directory.
Part 2: Let's add some ZCML directives that define how to interpret
filenames in the web root by their extension. Let's also interpret
special per-directory files that map URI names to filenames,
similar to Apache .htaccess files.
Part 3: One kind of file we can put in the web root serves as a
gateway into an object database. We might use the extension
".zodb" for this purpose. The .zodb file would specify what kind
of storage to open, where to find it, and what object to load from
it. In a sense, the web root would mount the object database.
Some configuration of the web root would mount an object database
right at the root, enabling Zope 3 to act just like it does today.
Any thoughts or gut reactions?
Shane
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