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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] [synthesis][10][8.15.04]
  • Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:58:18 -0500

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?

--
Chad Knepp
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