This tutorial looks great...it explained a lot of things to me that I wasn't able to put together before.
But...on looking at it, a nagging thought keep recurring...this is a really quite long and complicated process for a Poll product. As much as I like Zope and thing it is a great platform on which to develop web applications, I often wonder about the complexity and obscurity of some of the procedures that need to executed while making what are, on the face of it, often quite simple web objects or applications. Consequently I have honestly had quite a hard time convincing PHP-savvy colleagues that the path to Zope Zen is something worth starting on. Does anyone else experience these nagging doubtful thoughts occasionally ?
I think yours is a valid criticism. Zope provides the infrastructure to do a lot of powerful and complex things, with the downside that (currently) as a developer a lot of the details are "in your face". One major goal I have for Zope going forward is to strive for "optional complexity" - not only for day-to-day use of Zope but also for component developers. I'd be very interested to hear any ideas you folks have on ways to help "make simple things simple" for development and to allow people to deal with complexity only as they begin to need it... Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com