Something better than ZClasses (was: Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Zcatalog bloat problem (berkeleydb is a solution?))

Tino Wildenhain tino@wildenhain.de
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:29:29 +0200


Hi,

--On Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2001 15:54 -0500 Stephan Richter <srichter@cbu.edu> 
wrote:

> At 10:45 PM 6/27/01 +0200, Erik Enge wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>>
>> > if there are always many objects to create, may be it would be better
>> > to have a generic mechanism for asking users and represent
>> > app-/management interfaces rather then copying all the stuff over and
>> > over?
>>
>> That's what mk-zprod does.  Or rather, will do once I've made the
>> interface friendlier.  (If I didn't misunderstand you.)
>
> If I have some time left at all tonight, I will make a wizard that could
> be  the initial front-end to mk-zprod. Could you give me a short list of
> things  you would like to ask the user?

Hm. a simple collection of questions? Certainly not.
I talking of a whole mechanism, where you group input
and output into contexts. From application view it
would be an API, it schould work no matter if the input/
output is generated from and to HTML, WML, XML or even
stand-allone GUIs.
I'm thinking of semantic groups of input, output and types
and ranges and default values including naming conventions.

Regards
Tino