Andreas Jung wrote at 2004-7-16 06:35 +0200:
ZClasses for newbies? I think ZClasses are one of the most ugly and broken features in Zope. I would never recommended any person to learn or to use ZClasses....also not for rapid prototyping.
I disagree. "ZClasses" are an easy way to combine various elementary Zope objects into more complex objects. They facilitate creation of simple Web applications. Unfortunately, nobody has written comprehensive tests for ZClasses and therefore they break occationally between Zope releases. Usually, the problem is not big -- but you are using ZClasses because your Zope programming skills are not yet developped enough to implement full blown Zope products. Fixing bugs is even more demanding than implementing products... Fortunately, the Zope mailing lists are very active and usually patches for severe problems are available within a short time. In the past, the availability of patches did not always mean that they went into the official Zope release. But, we hope this is improving... -- Dieter