Let me second the Plone for CMS/Web2py for rapid apps meme. I'm also a regular user of Plone and Plone 4 is excellent. Point of trivia, while Plone latest release has gotten faster, Drupal's latest release has gotten slower.
Anyway I've had to dive into web2py because it was the best choice for teach web application development. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Philip Kilner <phil.kil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > On 07/01/11 17:28, Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> >> I'd like to see a good CMS based on web2py (the analogy isn't exact, but >> sort of like Plone is based on Zope). However, building a good CMS on web2py >> is at least as much work as building web2py in the first place (order of >> magnitude, anyway). I don't believe that you can cobble together a good CMS >> like that. >> > > I'd ideally like to see an all web2py solution too, but I agree that it's a > big task, which I suspect some underestimate. > > As a long-time Plone user (specifically, integrating RDBMS applications with > Plone CMSs), I'm actually very happy using Plone as a CMS and web2py for > RDBMS apps, and integrating the two where I need to. > > There is another issue, which is "dilution" - Plone has somewhat eclipsed > Zope, and there is debate on and off about whether Plone is a CMS > application or a framework, while Zope is now sometimes described as a CMS. > I think that confusion has had a cost for both Zope and Plone. > > My hope is that: - > > - Web2py keeps focussing on being an excellent framework. > > - If someone develops a heavyweight CMS in web2py, which would be good, it > does not get confused with web2py itself. > > FWIW, I'm hoping to start publishing my web2py notes later this month, and > have been a little bit concerned that I might get a negative reaction to > their being in a Plone CMS. I'm going to stop worrying about that - I've > picked the best framework for my work in web2py, and the best CMS for me to > document it in Plone. > > -- > > Cheers, > > PhilK >
