My 2 cents ( $Au) On Saturday 09 March 2002 04:01 am, you wrote:
Hi,
I am a newcomer in Zope (been using it for a week), coming from PHP. My view of Zope is still fresh. I am a very experienced Linux admin from the ISP world, but also a C programmer.
I think Zope has the following problems:
1. difficult installation (What? you say? I'll come to that)
Yes, rpms would be good, however, Zope is very customisable and has to co-exist with python (it took me days to get Zope to use MySQL, in the end, it was as easy as installing from source instaed of using a binary install). I don't believe there is anything wrong (or difficult) with installing from source.
2. unclear direction
Yes, I agree, this would also alleviate problem 1.
3. downloadable productlist 'unreliable'
I have had problems with products not working with my installs as well - however: The products SHOULD mention which Zope version they were written for.
4. small but showstopping documentation deficiences
Don't know about "showstopping" but sometimes it feels like banging my head against a brick wall might help more than the documentation - HOWEVER, this last year it's been great to see books appear everywhere, it's just a pity that we have great stuff like ZPT and CMF evolving and, lo and behold, causing documentation deficiencies (wonder what Zope 3 will do to the documentation and examples?). Should we be denied access to these things until the documentation is up to scratch? Regards, Mehmet