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Here are my current thoughts on several projects.
Ape: I've drafted an Ape 2.0 plan, but I'm waiting for some sign from the Zope 3 project that Ape will be useful in the future. Also, there are a couple of outstanding bugs in the Zope 2 version that I need to get around to fixing.
BTreeFolder2: This product will now be bundled with Zope 2. Yay!
PyXPCOM: I submitted a patch that fixes unicode problems in PyXPCOM, but the patch hasn't been touched in months. What's going on? Does nobody care?
Zope 3 IDE: I now think that what Zope 3 needs even more than an IDE is thorough offline documentation generated from the code and configuration. The documentation should include charts that show all views and adapters for every class and interface.
I'm working hard on a new Python / ZODB / Twisted project. I expect it to be open source, but it doesn't run yet and I need approval on the licensing. It's a tough project, so I don't have much mental bandwidth for other projects at the moment. I've been joining mailing list discussions as a break from this project.
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Hey Shane,
congrats on BTreeFolder2!
PyXPCOM will start picking back up. Some of Mark Hammond's time is allocated to moz foundation for pyxpcom work. So give it another 30 days and complain on pyxpcom mailing if its not merged wink
big question: you think you could look at updating VerboseSecurity to work with Zope 2.8 ? Lots of people are depending on it and its essential to diagnosing security issues with Zope. Think you could take a look at this?
greatly appreciated, alan
Thanks for the reminder, Alan. See:
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2005-June/025019.html
Unless Zope3 has a Data.fs alternatives that I don't know about I think APE will still be useful. At least I know I'll probably find it useful considering I'm just starting a project replacing the standard Data.fs on all our sites (>200) and had planned on using APE.
I started on a TTW schema and DCML editor, then ran across your work on an IDE. I'd rather not start a different effort on my part, and yours seems the most likely to succeed. I'd be glad to work with you on the IDE, or documenting the classes and interfaces. I'm a Zope newbie, but have lots of experience in other environments. Let me know how I can help.
Jim Norman
