At 08:16 AM 2/27/04 -0500, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
However, I am not sure, because I can't figure out what PEAK as a whole is really for. The likely source of an explanation, http://peak.telecommunity.com/Articles/WhatisPEAK.html seems awfully vague. What is the problem that PEAK was designed to solve, exactly? Clearly it was difficult, because there was a lot of solution :)
Yeah, reading PEAK's web site is pretty amusing. otoh, our own web copy, while less 'professional', is also pretty lame :-)
Pot, I'd like to introduce you to my friend Kettle. :) Seriously, all of this boils down to the distutils. If we could do CPAN-like dependencies, neither Zope nor Twisted nor PEAK would have these vague handwavy marketing materials. We'd all have a list of things that people could download, each with far-less-handwavy descriptions. And we'd be reusing a lot more of each other's stuff, I imagine.