----- Original Message ----- From: "James Johnson" <tacomabbs@hotmail.com> To: <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: [Zope-dev] CMF and 2.4.0
Zope core manages content by itself. So how you gonna have by the same company, two products that basically do the same thing. Sounds like doublespeak, and a good way to get some salaries shuffeled around. Imho having them labeled 2 separate products will end up being a hindrance to the overall project anyway. I'll take it anyway I can get it. I don't have any complaints, I love what's going on. I just don't understand parts of it.
I think there is a significant difference between Zope and CMF, and that it doesn't make sense to merge the two. To me, Zope is an Internet application framework that provides a whole lot of useful features for people who are building those apps and a decent web based UI for managing those apps. The CMF leverages the Zope framework to provide a nice content management system right out of the box. It provides the necessary workflow support, plus a whole bunch of additional user interface to make things functional for people running content driven sites. Some of the framework sorts of things the CMF provides will become a "fully-blessed" part of Zope via the forthcoming component model... but all of that UI and functionality geared specifically toward content management is best left as a separate piece, IMHO. Kevin Dangoor Product Development Manager Web Elite