Am Donnerstag, 16.01.03, um 20:40 Uhr (Europe/Rome) schrieb Kevin Gomez:
I am interested in installing Zope and testing it on my home Mac. I am running MacOS X 10.2.3.
I'm running Zope 2.5.1 and 2.6.0 on Mac OSX without (almost - see below) any problems. Beside the hint to http://zope-mosx.zopeonarope.com, it might the useful for you to check out the installer offered on http://plone.org (In my case it didn't start from the OSX control interface properly, that comes with it, so I start it manually from the always-beloved terminal, but everything else works fine.)
I currently use Postnuke http://www.postnuke.com as my CMS. Can you please explain the difference between the two?
The main difference - IMHO and beside the things that where mentioned before - is the structure of the both: while Postnuke (AFAIR) is based on PHP and a relational database management system using SQL, Zope comes with an object-oriented database (ZODB) and its own web-, ftp- and webDAV-servers. It is written in Python, an easy-to-learn object-oriented language, and itself object-oriented. This gives you some nice features, like inheritance, and the possibility to construct new kinds of "objects" (resp. "classes", the "templates" for your objects) in an easy way. So, everything you need for a web portal is already on hand, especially tools for the membership maintainance: I suggest trying Plone (or CMF = Content management framework), to see, how easy it can be :-) If you need relational database features, it is no problem to put almost any SQL-DB "behind" Zope: Adapters for almost all relevant RDBMS are there. And Zope's page template language helps you to not mix-up content and presentation, one of the "traps" in PHP ... So, I hope this may help you in your decision, if not: "Move over to Zope! Now!" :-) Bernd PS: ... and: Zope has a really very, great community of developers and users.
Any information is helpful. Thank you. Kevin Gomez Corning Macintosh Users Group AIM/iChat: promacwizard kevingomez@corningmug.org -- Please visit us at http://www.corningmug.org
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