Garito wrote at 2005-5-21 13:29 +0200: > ... >Dieter Maurer escribió: > ... >>A long standing bug in "KeywordIndex"... >> >>Maybe, you give my "Managable KeywordIndex" a try >>(part of "ManagableIndex"). > ... >I can't understand the lack of concern you talk about unresolved bugs in >Zope
I am a big Zope user who also files occational bug reports and patches. However, I cannot fix bugs in Zope directly (due to excessive demands with respect to patents, I am not willing to sign the contributors agreement). I am not very concerned about unresolved bugs because: * Zope is open source. I can fix any bug which seriously hampers my work -- not in the public Zope sources but in our sources of Zope. To keep upgrades possible despite local modifications, we maintain Zope in a source code control system (CVS currently). * I am a pragmatist. When I know there is a problem and I know how to avoid it, I just avoid it. Especially, I am no longer concerned with bugs in Zope's indexes since I have "ManagableIndex". I believe "ManagableIndex" it is more flexible, more efficient and has less bugs than the stock Zope indexes. >It seems Zope is not a serious tool. Imagine you want to buy a car but >the seller says: in these model there are a bug on the brake system but >I you put these extra no problem The keyword index bug is far less serious than a bug in the brake system of a car. I think, I wrote about 5 times "a long standing bug" in the last two to three years. There are apparently not that many people concerned about this bug. >How can I convince my customers to use Zope with these kind of >searchable information? You tell them that you can fix serious problems yourself because Zope is open source -- if there is not already a fix around (I told you that "Managable KeywordIndex" does not have this problem). -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )