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

[Shane Hathaway]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>
> >>>>> "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.

That's a good point.  I almost forgot that it took me a long time to guess
what OFSP stood for (Object FileSystem Product).  Any suggestions?

Shane