[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Zope in Jpython

[Chris Withers]

> > 4. make zope content easy to co-operative with current technonlgy especially
> > search engines. zope oodb is greate, but it prevent other apps to access the
> > data, so it is difficult to contruct a local search facility.
> 
> This is kind of vague, nothing in ZODB is specific to the way Zope

I have a kindof related point about search engines...
Zope doesn't like objects which have extensions. 
For example: index.html, so instead index_html is used.
However, search engines don't like pages which DON'T have extensions. They use extensions to work
out the content type of the file which saves them having to do a HEADER get to find it.
A few of the major search engines simply ignore files without an extension assuming them to be
scripts or downloads.
It would be nice if Zope had better support for objects ending in .html, for example, instead of
having to use the convoluted "_['index.html']" and others... perhaps even change the default from
index_html to index.html and maybe even add a default extension of .html to DTML documents when
they're served up...

> > 5. support cvs style versioning
> 
> Same as 4, all of the hooks and technology is there to support this, it
> just needs to be done.
> 

Are you talking about CVS style versioning for objects in the ZODB? If so then that would be very,
very cool :-)

Most people understand versioning to be CVS-ish versioning, and the current version objects,
although very cool, don't really do this.

my $0.04

Chris