I just had to port an Intranet to modern hardware/Linux that has been created in 1996 using plain zope and has been "programmatically" untouched since 2001.
The Intranet is rather complex and provides a kind of ERP on very technical 
data.
The application consist of some 1000 little dtml scripts and is totaly unmaintainable.
But it runs and runs and runs and is heavily used..

Unhindered by the fact that the inner working of the Intranet is unfathomable the transition to an up to date virtualized linux, actual postgres and such went rather easily.

Zope might be a zombie, but it is a great and sturdy one ..

hats of to its creators..

robert


On 17.03.2015 02:37, Jesus Cea wrote:
On 07/03/15 16:30, Simon Michael wrote:
I've sent you a download link.

I’m somewhat familiar with it, as I managed at least the zope2 wiki (and
wrote Zwiki)
ZWIKI... God...

Is there any possibility of upgrading it to support current Zope2?. I
have currently two zope instances: a current zope and an aging Zope 2.10
just to host ZWIKI :(.

About current topic: I am not a web developer. I host my (heavy)
personal ZOPE webserver and a handful of WSGI handcoded services. But my
Zope webserver is working well and I am happy with it. Every now and
then I have to write new logic and I must decide to "invest" into Zope o
just bite the bullet and jump to Django, Piramid, whatever.

I am keeping Zope because I am using it since 1998 and I know it
inside-out. I can do whatever I want with it and the HUGE learning curve
is already amortized. I just consider other choices because I feel that
Zope 2 is a dead-end, not because I am unhappy with it. But Zope wins
every time so far :)

That said, documentation is really painful. It is very fragmented and it
is not easy to separate "outdated" from "current". Messy. Since current
codebase seems to change really slowly (mature!) I would love to see a
documentation effort. Not holding my breath :-(. Most of the time, when
implementing something new, I don't have any other choice than dive into
the Zope sourcecode. Doable but time-wasting.



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