[Pythonmac-SIG] open source bbs in Python ?

[Joel Rodrigues]

On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 02:19 , Jim Harrison wrote:

> on 2/13/03 12:23 AM, Joel Rodrigues at borgempath@Phreaker.net wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info Ryan, Benjamin. If I have no choice, I'd
>> settle for Perl until I can figure out to how / get around
>> write  to writing one at least for my own use in Python with
>> PostgreSQL. Not interested in PHP.
>
> Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but if you don't mind 
> using Zope
> there are a number of bulletin board products written in python 
> for it (see
> www.squishdot.org, for example; also www.zopezen.org runs a 
> discussion board
> based on Zope/Plone which is available as a Plone skin). These 
> are easily
> modifiable and I've been pretty happy with Zope as a discussion support
> platform.
>
> There is a Postgres adapter for Zope, but existing products 
> typically use
> Zope's internal object DB.
>
> Jim Harrison
> Univ. of Pittsburgh

Thanks Jim ! Though I'm not keen on using Zope. For me, now, it 
is an unnecessary layer of complexity. Not inclined at this 
point to using 'middleware' or application servers, though I can 
see their purpose. I like putting application logic into 
PostgreSQL and using minimalist Python scripting to access and 
interface with data. So, using that path I could probably put 
together a rudimentary BBS at least.

Cheers,
Joel