Jean-François Doyon wrote: > Markus, > > Zope 3 is mature as a framework, but does not provide much "out of the > box". It's a basis upon which to build applications like Plone ... If > you are looking for something that provides Plone-like features on top > of Zope 3, it doesn't exist (yet). > > Personally, I'm waiting for this: http://www.z3lab.org/ > But it'll be a while yet! >
Yes - I was watching the screencasts (well, animations) on this and it looks incredible! I can't wait to play with something like this. > Zope 3 is brilliant, but complex, and quite the departure from Zope 2, > so it'll take a while for the take up to occur. > > What might work better for you is to use Zope 2 + the CMF, without > Plone. Plone can be fairly heavy and rigid, the CMF alone might give > you the tools you need. I use Zope 2 with success and good performance > on a hig traffic website, I wouldn't discount it just because of your > first impression ... There are many tweaks available that will > considerably improve performance for production systems. > > Cheers, > J.F. > Thanks for the reply - maybe I'll give it another shot. I'm currently demoing Snakelets. Quite a turn in the opposite direction, but small and super-easy to get going with. I think once this project gets a few good webapps under its belt (and maybe I can contribute there!) this could be a nice solution for many people. At least a good starting point for someone like me who knows a good deal about Python and nothing about web frameworks. Markus. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
