[ZPatterns] getting multiple dataskins from a specialist at once?

[Roché Compaan]

* Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> [2003-06-18 20:44]:
> At 07:30 AM 6/19/02 +0200, Roché Compaan wrote:
> >* Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> [2003-06-18 15:16]:
> >> PEAK's web-publishing framework isn't ready yet, and as far as I know
> >> nobody has created any integration for PEAK into Zope 2.
> >
> >Would this be possible at all?
> 
> In principle, definitely.  In practice, a lot depends on how much you want 
> to integrate.  The trickiest thing is probably integrating the two 
> transaction systems.  You might need to create a subclass of PEAK's 
> storage.TransactionService and modify it so it can hook into Zope's 
> transaction machinery.
> 
> All in all, I suppose it might be too much work to bother with.  For me, I 
> expect us to have 'peak.web' up and running soon enough (within the next 
> two months) that I'd personally rather go forward than back.  'peak.web' 
> will use Zope 3's publishing machinery, and maybe a few libraries like 
> 'zope.i18n', but it won't require or use any of 'zope.app', ZCML, ZPT, 
> DTML, or any of a variety of other Zope buzzwords.

Considering how much infrastructure and products exists for Zope 2 it
might be worth the effort. We depend a lot on Formulator, XML Widgets,
ZPT and some other products that we built inhouse. At the moment I'll
poke around to satisfy my curiosity and to familiarise myself with what
has been happening to PEAK in the last 6 months ;-)

Even if it doesn't prove to be successful it might give me an idea of
what needs to be done to make some of the most useful Zope products work
with peak.web.

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Roché Compaan
Upfront Systems                 http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za