[Zope] What's Amos ?

Service Informatique CHSR chsrinfo@guetali.fr
Fri, 28 May 1999 10:16:01 +0400


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ROFL-ly yours

Jephte CLAIN
Service Informatique CHSR

PS: Amos is the only one who dare to show his photo on starship python
I wonder what the others (Paul, Mike, Michel, Rob, Brian, Jim, ...) look
like?

>[Paul Jackson]
>> Last week, Christopher Petrill wrote, from the conference:
>>
>> > Michel and Chris took a gargantuan dataset
>> > from Amos (the RPM database as RDF)
>>
>> Does anyone have any further references to Amos?
>>
>> It seems to be something that would be useful to some work
>> I'm embarking on (indexing some RPM's, using Python and Zope
>> technologies), but I can find no other mention of Amos.
>
>   Amos is the latest generation Python-bot (for other Python-bots, see
>python-list@python.org or comp.lang.python, eg. /F-bot and Tim-bot). He's
fully
>implemented using a new XML version of DTML and Jim Fulton's highly
>experimental ZODB-4 which has the facility to use fuzzy logic in object
>lookups. This means that sometimes Amos-bot can send messages to this
mailing
>list which seem completely non-sensical. He covers this fuzziness by
referring
>to a thing he calls 'Zope Zen', implying only those who have 'Zope Zen'
>(perhaps this is the DC-internal code name for ZODB-4?) can understand him.