TTW types, was Re: [Zope3-dev] Zope 3 Newsletter: Issue 10

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 08:48  AM, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Friday 05 September 2003 14:42, Paul Winkler wrote:
>>>   TTW Development
>>>
>>>     After Sidnei implemented "Mutable Schemas", I started work on
>>>     (and finished) a  schema-based Content Component type for TTW
>>>     development.
>>
>> This sounds like a good replacement for z2 ZClasses,
>> is that an accurate perception?
>
> Yep!
>
>> I recall an earlier discussion on this subject, in which
>> somebody (maybe me) expressed a desire for a bridge between
>> ttw-developed objects and filesystem-developed objects.
>> The primary reason why i never use ZClasses is that when (not if)
>> I reach the point of wanting to turn it into a filesystem-based
>> prodect, I have to start over completely from scratch.
>> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Well, I think it would be fairly straight forward to provide a tool 
> that
> converts these Content Component Definitions and interfaces to a FS 
> product.
> I can help you attack the problem if you wish.

Doesn't this already exist?  I thought there was a 'schemagen' module 
and/or tool already that could generate Python code from an interface 
definition.