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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Chad Knepp wrote:

> Sorry, I'm not going to meet my self-imposed deadline today or even
> before mid-week (Wednesday is my new goal).  Things are going well
> mentally and I've been able to do more good work in the last couple of
> days than previously, but still due to a slow start and various events
> (wild party last night) and other duties I'm just not getting at the
> hacking time I had hoped... so far averaging only a little over 2.5
> hours a day.
Cool we not even at the "take initial estimate, double it and at 10% 
stage" yet.

> So far I've written an ObjectManger like class to handle HGObjects
> that uses BTrees that auto-determines and guarantees unique ids.  

Eak, sounds complicated! A good one for the testing dept.

> I've
> also written a generic HGObject as well as a limited (only name
> attributes at the moment) Plant object and some simple interfaces for
> HGObject and Plant.  
Cool.

> The hardest part and seemingly the slowest is all the fiddly bits of
> getting the basic app wired up in Zope correctly (ClassSecurityInfo is
> a nightmare).  Fortunately I think I'm mostly there and am currently
> writing the basic management zpts.  After that I can develop actual HG
> objects and the necessary functionality.  One of the nice things about
> Zope is that I don't have to write anything to handle users because
> it's already there.
Can't say I'm suprised, hopefully once these bits are sorted
and your up the learning curve things will go smoother.

> Anyway, Rich will be happy to hear that I've been doing a top notch
> job of documentation as well and the initial release will include a
> nice 'epydoc'ed html tree of the classes which is nice additionally
> because it documents the super classes as well, giving a clearer
> picture of some of the crazy inheritance trees.

Nice one. V important for a few years down the line.
> Anyway, not there yet, but will have something very soon.
Sounds like progress has been good.

        Happy hacking

                Rich
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