Oliver Marx wrote:
Here is what I told my mother:
Zope 3 is a web development technology that focuses on code reuse,
automated testing and security.
- Code reuse: we can do more in less time.
- Automated testing: Code reuse makes it a much have.
- And with automated testing we can actually prove that we implemented
the security model we have agreed with our customers to use.
Yup. Now let's drop the "3" in that sentence, because all of this
applies to Zope software as a whole. This is, in fact, one way to sum up
the way the Zope project as a whole works.
What I told my mother is much much less important than what I didn't
tell her. I did not use words like library, server, python, zodb, sql etc.
Who are the people in the audience?
Business people -> yes
Non-programmers (but still IT) -> maybe
Programmers (non-python) -> more often that not
Programmers (python) -> yes
Zope 3 core developers -> never - already customers
Zope 2 programmers -> yes
The audience consist of people who will never (or at least very seldom)
become contributers to the Zope 3 stack!?
Maybe we can learn from the javascript libraries? The first time you
pick the whole package. Later when you have become more familiar with
the library you only include the parts that you really need. But that is
not how you start!
Absolutely.
Zope 3 should IMO have a "click clack install" version that makes the
first little app a piece of cake. Add to that a story about flexibility
and automated testing; then even I would buy it ;)
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zopeproject is probably the fastest
and easiest way to get started nowadays. One command and you're set up
with a sandbox. If you haven't got Zope 3 downloaded yet, it will do so
as well. It selects a set of libraries that are common in most
applications and installs them by default. You can, of course, get rid
of them later on.
Then of course there's Grok (http://grok.zope.org) which builds on the
Zope Libraries and aims at making it all much easier. It too has a
"click clack install" along the lines of zopeproject; it's called
grokproject. And a while ago, I demonstrated how you could create a
TodoList application in 15 minutes with it:
http://www.archive.org/details/grok_todo_part1. Note that Grok has
evolved a bit since then and adding any kind of ZCML or working with the
ZMI is unnecessary nowadays.
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