[Dev] 4Suite RDF and ZODB

[James Tauber]

> I don't have much experience with Redfoot.  Also, I have a lot of
> respect for the guys behind Redfoot: Tauber and Eikon.  Unfortunately,
> these facts mean I'll be weasling out of answering the question  :-)

I have a lot of respect for Uche and not much experience with 4Suite so
I'm in the same situation :-)

I will say some things about Redfoot, though.

As I mentioned in a previous post, one of my original visions for Redfoot
was as an RDF-based PIM.

The initial work Eikeon and I did was in writing an RDF library in Python
and a language for scripting web UI driven by RDF (essentially Python
code embedded in xhtml). We also did some initial work on propagating RDF
triples between Redfoot instances. We didn't get as far as non-web UI
although that was always in our plans.

Version 1.0.0 of Redfoot was released last year on Sourceforge:
http://www.sf.net/projects/redfoot/

The 'generic' sample application that is included provides, I think, a
good web-based way to see what RDF and RDF schemas are about.

Since that release, a lot has been rewritten. Eikeon separated out the
purely RDF portions as "rdflib" as people were interested in using things
like the RDF parsing without the web-based UI framework.

Eikeon forked the main Redfoot code around the same time so there is a
distinction in what is at SourceForge and what is on eikeon's own site,
redfoot.net. Eikeon continues development on rdflib (and I assume
Redfoot) without me so I don't know what the future plans for Redfoot
are.

>From my point of view, the OSAF is fulfilling what I originally wanted
Redfoot to be, so I wouldn't mind OSAF taking over the Redfoot work.

James



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