[Zope3-dev] Zope Package (Directory) Structure Reorganization

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:07:31 -0400


>>>>> "SH" == Shane Hathaway <shane@zope.com> writes:

    SH> I like the notion that OFS contains only the things you would
    SH> need to make a static web site: folders, files, and images.
    SH> Imagine people coming from other web servers and trying to
    SH> make sense of an entire object system.  They need a way in.
    SH> The easiest thing to do is upload static HTML and images, and
    SH> to do that, just use OFS.  OFS is the doorway from files and
    SH> directories to very simple objects.  And OFS is always there
    SH> to fall back on.

    SH> This is one of the things that Zope 2 did right.

Cool, sounds great.  But is "OFS" the best way to describe the utility
of this subdirectory?  It's a mystical acronym to the uninitiated.

-Barry