On Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 01:47:21PM -0500, Ken Manheimer wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote:
[I propose some half-baked thoughts about object relationships] I don't think it's a hard problem, and i agree, i don't think it's high enough priority to retrofit to 1.x. If there's sufficient mandate (read, incentives for digital creations) for mailman and zope to exploit on eachother's capabilities, we may be able to spend some time tailoring them for eachother a bit, avoiding locking mailman to zope, but strengthing mailman where zope is available... Exciting prospects, and i actually think there will be the mandate. Got a lot to do before then, though, so don't hold your breath.
Well, given all the licensing things not being resolved yet, these are just hypothetical ideas... well, real ideas with hypothetical probability!
What I see is this... not Mailmain as part of Zope, but a parallel "application" on top of the Zbase... this of course depends on the new ideas proposed by Jim for BoboPOS3, ney Zbase 3? Zope could then be used to provide a management interface to the mailing-list "publisher" that works off the same database.
I don't know... hmm... it's all so complex! :-) I'm going to sit down and think through the object-model that would be necessary for this, maybe whip out a few UML models to put it down on virtual paper... assuming I remember all my modeling theory! ;-)
One idea, and I don't know how feasible it is at THIS point, is to use ZPublisher as the basis for a new management interface, and then wrap that up in such a way as to allow it to be Productized for Zope so someone could just plug the interface in anywhere they want :-)
(BTW, ironically, i've been tempted to post my messages in this to the zope list!-)
No no, not at this point anyway... I'm new to this whole thign anyway, so maybe I'm just wacko and thinking of things that have been hased out to death already.
Chris
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