> I had a few bad experiences with Zope. This was due largely to
> the very bad
> documentation and their annoying DHTML scripting language. But this
> was over a year ago and their core architecture did have some
> neat features.
That would be DTML. And they have an new system called ZPT (Zope Page
Templates). They still support DTML. I like DTML alot. I haven't done
enought work with ZPT to know if I like it yet. Documentation is decent for
zope. The biggest problem is ZOPE is an Object Oriented framework and that
throws people for a loop. They tend to think in terms of pages. But Zope is
an object paradigm. Once you get your head around that it will be much
easier to understand.
> I have not looked at it recently, but I can't see them ditching DHTML
> anytime soon.
> I liked their object database, but it was very awkward to combine
> web pages
> from the file system with web pages dynamically generated from
> their object
> database.
There is a LocalFS product that makes this so easy it's laughable.
> In the end my main complaint is that the learning curve for Zope is very
> much
> against the Python way.
But you aren't learning a language you are learning a framework.
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