[ZPatterns] Newbie asks about ZPatterns reliability. Was: Why is class_default_for_ method unbound?

[Gary Poster]

Thank you, Steve.  As I read the docs and examples, it continues to look
like a great match for what I need (thanks for being one of the ones to
point me in this direction in my Zope-dev thread last week).  I think I'm
almost ready to graduate from the ZPatterns ZWiki to your
DumbZPatternsExample. ;-)

Upon receiving your clue, I just found the ZPatterns anonymous CVS info on
Zope so I'll dig into that a little later.  Are Steve A.'s patches in CVS or
elsewhere?

Finally, I have the packaged (non-CVS) version all compiled, installed, and
happy on my Linux box, I think, but would love to have the Win32 Zope2.4
DynPersist.dll so I can play there too--I saw in the archives that this was
*just* sent (from Steve Alexander as compiled by you), but
ASCII-to-application (as found in the archives now) is beyond me (if it is
possible at all?).  Is this available for download anywhere?  May I bother
you or Steve A. for it, if not?

Thanks again

Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Spicklemire" <steve@spvi.com>
To: "Gary Poster" <garyposter@earthlink.net>
Cc: "Steve Spicklemire" <steve@spvi.com>; <zpatterns@eby-sarna.com>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ZPatterns] Newbie asks about ZPatterns reliability. Was: Why
is class_default_for_ method unbound?


>
> Hi Gary,
>
> I think that ZPatterns is wonderful, and highly useful technology.
> I would not hesitate to build apps using it (in fact I do!). The
> "problems" mostly revolve around keeping the sources up to date with a
> rapidly evolving "Zope". I think the official (i.e., CVS) ZPatterns is
> not currently up to date with Zope 2.4. Steve Alexander has done a
> wonderful job of finding bugs and fixing them (and releasing the
> fixes!). I think you should at least *look* at ZPatterns and see if it's
> features would be helpful in your application. If there are bugs in
> SteveA's patches, it will only help t find them sooner if more people
> exercise the code. Once found, most of these bugs are fixed in hours, if
> not days.
>
> Just my opinion... of course. ;-)
>
> -steve
>