Fellow Zopistas: Just a note (although this begins to sound like a rant as I read it back, sorry!) to mention how surprised I was that even given the revamped Zope look n feel in 2.3.x, the "Quickstart" seems to still need a lot of updating! Isn't it likely that the first thing a newbie would do is read this and get really confused? There are a plethora of new concepts and especially new terms that have no definitions almost anywhere without a lot of looking around. Now anyone who has used Zope for a while and/or is familiar with the history of product development at DC will know some of this stuff, but it just adds to the confusion for new users. Some examples:
In App development/External Methods: "Pluggable brains" (sounds cool but daunting)
In The Almighty Lever "An exiting new development being worked on for Zope is The Lever... "
(I have been working with Zope for well over a year and still don't know what THIS is....) "Tabula or Aqueduct " (You have to dig deep to figure out what these are)
In Adding Object Behavior to Relational Data " With Zope and Aqueduct " "Aqueduct Database Methods"
In "Programming Data with Tabula"
This talks some more about Aqueduct and Tabula. Again, Tabula is defined exactly nowhere, as a matter of fact, if you search for Tabula on Zope.org all you get is a footnote on this page. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/ZSQL-HTML/ZSQL.1.5.5.html Aqueduct isn't mentioned too much on Zope.org either: just in these two places, and they don't help much... http://www.zope.org/Products/DA/ZODBCDA/CHANGES.txt http://www.zope.org/Members/paul/BusinessDecision
In "Dropin Objects" Here we see mention of the "Aqueduct line of products" ..... nuff said on this one. And Confera: this could be changed to something newer, I was under the impression that Confera was sort of obsolete.
In "High Performance" and "Multi-Platform" and "SQL and HTML in Harmony" and "Multiple Data Sources" and "Multi-tiered" and "Publish Databases" More mentions of Aqueduct.
"Multi-tiered" and "Databases" each has a figure that shows a block called Principia. Now you can find stuff about this on Zope.org, but it's scantly explained for such a key part of the system. And so on. Summary: Quickstart Really Needs to Get Updated Jeff Sasmor jeff@sasmor.com Check out http://www.naggle.com/