[Zope-ZEO] Advice

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:03:19AM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
>This strikes me as a good pithy summary of the problem.  We were trying
>to write *code*, dammit, and a database-of-code-objects is not an
>adequate substitute for a real programming environment.

Actually, it could be an adequate substitute with a lot of work;
consider Smalltalk, where you modify the set of objects in a workspace
and just distribute the workspace.  I have an impression of Lisp
Machine environments worked similarly to some degree.  But that means
you have to commit to building an editor and version control and
testing framework within your environment, which is a lot of work.  

--amk