This weekend I gained a little more Zope enlightenment and created my first Python product. (Until now, I'd done some work with existing Python products, but any new stuff I needed was generally built using ZClasses through the web.

Actually, I'm only dipping my toes in the water, only using the Python product to provide functionality that I can't through ZClasses (namely, I can't have manage_afterAdd methods for two base classes both be invoked -- the first one in the list wins) and building the rest of the product with ZClasses. ZClasses are oft-maligned on Zope IRC, but I think they have a definite place and are quite useful for building simple classes.

"solpkg", the packaging system for Solaris I mentioned earlier, will hopefully be ready for public digestion by the end of the week and posted in its Savannah project area. I want to get in a hardcore reading of the OpenBSD ports system code and figure out how it solved some of the problems I've run into to see if they're solvable in a similar way on Solaris first. Right now there's some voodoo in solpkg, and I want to make sure I understand at least my own code before I make it public.