[Zope] [Project Idea] Looking ahead to the future of Linux .. .

Michel Pelletier michel@digicool.com
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:14:33 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn Faassen [mailto:faassen@vet.uu.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 10:26 AM
> To: Bryan J. Smith
> Cc: 'Zope List'
> Subject: Re: [Zope] [Project Idea] Looking ahead to the 
> future of Linux
> ...
> 
> 
> "Bryan J. Smith" wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > Little and big internal projects aside, I was wondering if 
> Zope could
> > possibly fill a gap that will come about with Linux 
> shortly.  That gap is
> > software distribution at the enterprise server to client level.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what you want here, but perhaps interesting
> for you is the Trove project. Perhaps it's directed more to 
> larger scale
> internet based distribution, though. Another problem is that 
> as far as I
> know the project isn't progressing very quickly if at all (perhaps you
> can help).
> 
> I've even heard mention of ZTrove, which would be a Zope 
> based Trove, if
> I understand well. I don't know what the status on that is.
> 
> Mind, I don't know a thing about Trove, just giving pointers 
> in the hope
> it's useful.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn
> 

Trove is sketches of code in Python (written by Eric Raymond) and ZTrove
is vaporware, barely prototyped in bobo a few months ago when I was on
the Trove list.  It's unfortunate, since I felt that Trove was a great
idea; the Internet hasn't reached the point of 'we need it now' in order
to get some development behind it.  Personally, I think Sunsite and
RedHat should give us lots of money so we can write it. :)

With Ken and I now in the Zope loop (Ken was one of the original Trove
designers, and I was in on the GUI side of things, pushing what was at
the time Bobo) we could probably bang something out sometime in the far
future.  We'd prefer someone in the community start it up because Paul
and Rob have us booked sometime into the year 2011.

-Michel

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