From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 4 14:41:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D824837B424; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA67449; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:41:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:41:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Johann Visagie Cc: GH , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OSS, Sun, GPL, random ramblings In-Reply-To: <20000904143602.A29071@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Johann Visagie wrote: > GH on 2000-08-31 (Thu) at 16:02:37 -0500: > > > > I have tried looking into Zope, and I see what you mean about (lack of) > > documentation. It took far too long just to find out what the heck it > > is supposed to do. > > It may be Zope's single greatest failing that there is no simple - or short - > answer to the question, "What is Zope?" :-) I had a hell of a time trying to write the recent zope security advisory for just this reason. In the end I just quoted what they themselves had to say about the security problem because I couldn't find enough context to really understand it :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message