Hah! Their object framework was the part that I liked the best!
Although it needed to be a bit more open to static web pages.
Previously they wanted you to import every static page into the
object data base. There was a LocalFS Product to allow
some interfacing, but it wasn't a smooth integration.
Yours,
Noah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Drees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Noah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Brian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: RE: Perl EX for python?
> > 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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