Over the last few months I've been getting much more comfortable advocating Zope as our supported Web application environment. I'm *finally* getting around to building my own products, however, and I just realized how limited they appear to be. It *seems* that Zope products are at the evolutionary point that CGI handling was years ago. Remember when we had to use "cgi-bin" for a CGI script? Any user who wanted to run a script would require some setup by the admin. Then we got smart and got rid of cgi-bin directories and put CGI scripts where they belong - in the hands of the user (and in the users' directories along with everything else). Looking at Zope products, I see this happening again - only worse. Instead of simply creating a directory for someone to fill with CGI scripts, I have to personally maintain every product that anyone wants to add to the Control Panel (or give that person way too much authority). Also, every product will be available to every user. With tens of thousands of developers working on their own projects, this is *not* a Good Thing. [Is there/Will there be] a way to allow users to create their own products for their own use? I want people to freely whip up ZClasses and use them throughout their sites. I don't want them to bother me or other users with their creations. I haven't tried Python methods yet, but from what little I've picked up about them, I think they will be a huge step forward in giving users safe power. This doesn't solve the products issue, though, does it? Can a user make his own class without other users seeing it? Any insight will be appreciated. Thank you. --kyler