pcplantdb

[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Richard Morris writes:
 > Chad Knepp wrote:
 > 
 > > Richard Archer writes:
 > >  > Seeing the limited grant money spent on hardware rather than
 > >  > development would almost make me cry.
 > > 
 > > I agree.
 > > 
 > >  > I'm only a bystander here, but I'd have thought developing this
 > >  > system in the most widely available development environment would
 > >  > make most sense.
 > >  > 
 > >  > And it is apparent that since your chosen host doesn't run ZOPE
 > >  > that ZOPE is not widely available and therefore not the most
 > >  > appropriate system to develop this project in.
 > > 
 > > Not actually.  Our preferred host doesn't currently run Zope, although
 > > they have in the past.  The fact that a given host doesn't currently
 > > have Zope available is not an indicator of it's overall availability.
 > > 
 > Its a waiting game. Either we get cracking now
 > with what we have, or wait 6 months for zope to appear
 > (if it does).
 > 
 > I'm for getting cracking now.
 > 
 > Unfortunatly this means no Zope, to start with.
 > 
 > As step 1 we have to develope the data model for
 > how we want to represent plants.
 > 
 > An SQL system will do just fine for this.
 > 
 > If Zope comes online it can easily access the SQL,
 > so we wont loose much work.

Have you really been reading all the posts Rich?  If so, I'm not sure
what you mean by not having Zope now.

 > At the current stage, the key point is working out
 > the data model. How do we actually represent
 > structured, extensible and editable data.
 > 
 > Too be convinced of Zope I would need a few things
 > 1)   A hello world with objects
 > 2)   Some idea of the class hierarcy
 > 
 > Part 2) is good anyway. With that we can start looking
 > at just how hard it is to implement any system.
 > And start looking at our data model in depth.

For 1) what did you think of the Boring product link I posted?  For 2)
do you mean you want to see a design first?  Why?  

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Chad Knepp
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