[schooltool] first impressions

[Tom Hoffman]

On Nov 6, 2007 3:40 AM,  <felis at safe-mail.net> wrote:

> > That's interesting.  You are running SchoolTool from subversion, right?
> >
>
> Nope, not yet. I've downloaded the schooltool_0.9.orig.tar.gz, but  finding that wasn't strait forward. The download link on schooltool.org has no current items, and i haven't seen svn links anywhere? Perhaps creating one central page for downloading stuff isn't bad for schooltool. But i'm known to be rather ignorant if it's not completely uterly strait forward (lol)

Yes, a reorganization is in the works...  For svn here are instructions:

http://www.schooltool.org/documentation/setting-up-a-development-server/your-development-environment/

> > Based on my experience in discussing the project with people over the
> > past couple years, the biggest factor is whether or not you and/or
> > your developers can figure out Zope 3.  Ultimately, of course, we aim
> > to have a product that doesn't require that knowledge, but right now
> > you'd need to do a fair amount of hacking yourself.
>
> Perhaps grokify schooltool? I'm not far from Neanderthal :)

SchoolTool/Grok is probably something for 2009 or so.  I do hope in
the long run Grok makes creating SchoolTool components much more
accessible.

--Tom