Hello, It's a good question. :) On Nov 7, 2007 7:51 AM, Chetan Kumar <chetan.mlist@gmail.com> wrote:

I am to start working on a new web (site/application) project. Wanted to find out better route from among the available choices. In other words what are *you* using ?

It depends on what I'm doing. If you need a full-featured CMS, use Silva or Plone or something like that, based no Zope 2 (with Zope 3 technologies). I use Grok for web applications. Now since I'm one of the originators of Grok that's not a big surprise. :) Many people use Plone as a foundation for their own web applications. That works if the web application can be fit into Plone; you'll get a UI to work with and a ton of features. It can also be frustrating and hard to maintain if the web application isn't much like Plone. In that case instead of trying to bend Plone to your will it might make sense to start with another framework.

I have used zope 2 and plone in my past projects. The question arises now as we have new rewrite of zope with grok on the horizon and plone as always is there (with a new version). There is also new CMS based on zope (hivert announced recently on zope-dev). Exciting times, but a little confusion too.

The site will tend towards social networking some time later as I see the requirements taking shape. At the moment it is about people joining a community website and exchanging information on a particular topic, reviewing items (articles, links, photos) added to the site.

Since you're talking about a community website it sounds at least initially to me that Plone, or some other community-oriented CMS could be a good fit. Silva doesn't sound like a good fit as it doesn't focus on community features primarily. Meanwhile all these things do tend to converge. Zope 2 software like Plone is using Zope 3 technology. Grok and Zope 3 aren't far apart and we're doing our best to make Grok compatible with "classic" Zope 3 applications. I'm sure eventually Grok technology will make it into Zope 2. Regards, Martijn