[Zope] - Web On CD stand alone

[Brad Clements]

On 14 Jan 99, at 11:58, Robert OConnor wrote:

> The Zope WIN install could be 
> improved so that the  ZopeHTTPServer
> gets installed more automatically and
> run just by CD insertion.
> 
> Comments anyone?


Rather than install the Zope server, why not create a special 
implementation of the IE4 browser with Zope built-in.

You could create a multi-threaded app, one thread could run the python 
interpreter with Zope objects. The other thread could be the gui with the 
IE4 ActiveX HTML viewer control thrown in.

You'll have full control over where the HTML viewer can connect to, and 
you can start it off by pointing it at some local port that you've chosen 
for the internal ZopeHTTPServer.

This way everything can run off the CD without installing anything, and 
you won't leave anything lingering on the user's machine.



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