[Zope-Moz] Extreme Zope Development?

Martijn Pieters mj@digicool.com
Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:13:50 +0200


On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:30:52PM +0530, Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote:
> Martijn Pieters wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:04:38PM -0700, Robb Beal wrote:
> > > Folks.
> > > 
> > > I've seen mention in various Zope-Moz contexts of the
> > > need to support multi-Zope development. Could someone
> > > provide screen shots of extreme Zope development like
> > > this and other edge cases where the current Zope
> > > management UI currently breaks down.
> > 
> > No screenshots just now, but I'll add extensions to the 'copy Zope objects'
> > Use Case. Not sure if this will get implemented though, as it depends on
> > Mozilla's support for Drag'n'Drop between windows.
> > 
> > One ZopeStudio window will be for one Zope server, the same goes for the
> > object browser. 
> 
> We could have one objectbrowser show multiple Zope servers. Make them
> the top level tree nodes or something.

Yes, but I rather not. I want to keep this a bit cleaner.

> 
> > Nothing will stop you however from opening multiple windows
> > for multiple servers. With some D'n'D pixydust you then should be able to
> > move/copy objects and/or properties between servers.
> 
> Umm. Wouldn't this require some extra functionality from Zope too?

No. All this could be done in Zope Studio. On receiving a drop, all data
related to the object being dropped coul be copied over and ZS only has to
create a new object on the server with this data.

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