[Zope] RE: [Zope-dev] the birth of ZCommerce

[Steve Spicklemire]

This is a *great* direction... but I'm fearing that it requires pretty
high level design coordination. We need a Toolkit interoperation
API. ;-) Do we need a committee?

-steve

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Page <rob.page@digicool.com> writes:

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    Rob> One of our biggest selling points for Zope is that people
    Rob> don't want the software to become their organization, they
    Rob> want their organization (at least the online part) to be
    Rob> manifest in some software.  This is the design notion behind
    Rob> the Zope Portal TOOLKIT.  We can't design The Portal -- what
    Rob> we can do is identify, through experience, recurring
    Rob> components and spend some infrastructure time developing and
    Rob> hardening those. For these reasons and consistent with other
    Rob> posts (Scott Robertson?) on this list I'd LOVE to see a
    Rob> ZCommerce TOOLKIT.

    Rob> If everyone writes their own primitive systems or, worse,
    Rob> writes their own monoliths, none of it will improve in the
    Rob> Zope Bazaar.  If we all write using notions of toolkits the
    Rob> underlying components will get better and better over time.
    Rob> Don't know about you, but the notion of supporting my OWN
    Rob> cybercash adapter isn't too interesting...

    Rob> --Rob