On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 skip@calendar.com wrote:
My sentiments exactly. It would appear that Principia and Zope traded off Bobo's simple object publishing model for a very nice way to manage hierarchical web sites. The extra complexity added under the covers looks like it will make it very difficult to convert existing CGI-based sites to Zope. I have a site that uses 30-40 CGI scripts to do its business. At
Echoing Skip ... After playing around with Zope for a while I got the impression that Zope makes it a bit difficult to publish new objects on the Web (compared with Bobo) but provides a very powerful platform to create editable web document hierarchies. I am trying to build a very lightweight distributed object system based on Bobo, where object contents do not change often (apart from configuration files) but whole objects are added or deleted relatively frequently. In such a scenario I need a simple Web front end that displays object functionality and webfolder contents in a consistent manner without the need to provide the option to edit the way this front end looks or the permissions set at development time. Such a zoppini though must be very flexible and user friendly when it comes to adding objects. I would like to transfer everything to Zope and trow away my Zoppini but I think I will need to wait a bit longer. Pavlos