[Zope-dev] Zope IDE

[Martijn Pieters]

From: "JB" <jimbag@kw.igs.net>
> I suppose this may sound crazy, but for me, the ultimate development
> environment would allow me to do most everything outside the browser,
> and just call the browser for viewing. I've managed to add XML-RPC and
> WebDAV to ZopeEDIT and can manage Folders now (create/edit/delete) and
> deal with a few attributes of Objects (title,id) (I've not released
> yet). For me, the clincher with this, is being able to use my own editor
> and tools (templates, other text processing python modules, cpp, m4), to
> program Zope. I can do with with every other language I develop in
> except Zope and this is the most frustrating aspect of trying to write a
> Zope app as none of the tools I have built over the years are available
> to me. I personally find this a serious productivity decrease. So, I
> guess what I'm afraid of is that putting the management aspects into
> another browser will be different, but will really just be the same in
> that it will still exclude the tool base I'm used to for developing. And
> I'm also afraid that I'll plow ahead with ZopeEDIT and find that 'Zope
> Studio' in fact DOES address my concerns and my time will have been
> wasted ;) So I'm trying to get a handle on what sort of projects are
> happening, whether they meet my needs, whether I can contribute to them
> to help them meet my needs, or whether some folk are interested/willing
> to contribute to a 'non-browser' approach to an IDE. Any comments,
> suggestions, declarations of insanity are most welcome.

Check out the plans for Zope Studio:

  http://www.zope.org/Resources/Mozilla/ZWiki/ZopeStudioVision
  http://www.zope.org/Resources/Mozilla/Projects/MozillaOME

You'll notice that the plans include support for external editors.

If you are interested in Zope Studio development, join the mailinglist:

  http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-mozilla

We would also like to hear about other IDE development there.

Martijn Pieters
| Software Engineer    mailto:mj@digicool.com
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