On 21/5/01 12:22 pm, "Paul Everitt" <paul@digicool.com> wrote:
Howdy folks. AndyM is running a poll over at ZopeZen:
http://www.zopezen.org/ (Look at the bottom of the left margin)
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OK, on to the discussion. Are those numbers *really* accurate? I gotta admit, though I've had a soft spot in my heart for the Zope Studio thing, I'm stunned that it would be in front. Much less so *far* in front. Are these results an accurate reading of the sentiments -- that given the list of choices Andy presented, a Zope Studio is so much more popular than those choices!?!
Well, if you look at the other choices; More kick ass RDMS adapters - more or less covered Storage abstraction layer - deep voodoo, not many folks will understand this one An IDE (Zope Studio) - Easier installation of Zope and products - happens quite rarely Conversion of more data types - seems like another db issue Nothing, its perfect - :) Not that I'm slagging Andy off - it's a *good* thing to solicit feedback, just that out of those choices, most people are going to go for the 'eye-candy' option.
Wow. Let's try a different tack. Pretend there was a for-free Zope Studio and a for-fee Zope Studio. Let's say the difference was either like ActiveState's difference (personal use vs. professional use), or say the difference was in "Professional" capabilities.
Does anyone think there would be any moderate-sized market for a for-fee version? How many of you would pay a few hundred bucks for a high-quality dev/authoring/admin environment for Zope?
--Paul
One thing for me - it *must* be cross-platform. One reason I'm so into Zope is the non-M$oft flavour of it all, I can use it from my Mac runnning MacOS X (and *run* Zope on it), on PCs in our department, or most other things we come across as long as they run a browser. I won't use a PC to edit my Zope pages. There's no downloads for a MacOS version of Python from the ActiveState pages so this proposal doesn't thrill me that much. I'd prefer to see the web interface cleaned up and XML integration boosted. I *would* pay money for a high-quality environment, with the caveats above. My 2p Tone. -- Dr Tony McDonald, Assistant Director, FMCC, http://www.fmcc.org.uk/ The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 243 6140 A Zope list for UK HE/FE http://www.fmcc.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/zope