Of course it makes sense to use CMF. Plone is built on top of the CMF, and so it incorporates gadgets that are suitable for many generic end-uses. But if you rather need a foundational platform for an enterprise-level CMS, loof&feel-independent, go for Zope or Zope/CMF. In the long term you'll find that you'll be required to provide unique automation tools to the providers, administrators and auditors of content within your singular organization, and that canned solutions' customizing features are more of a pain than a real aid. (The same reasoning applies to high-end commercial suites, by the way). So if you expect that those unique tools will requiere custom development from you, for that scenerario is way better to build on top of your own platform, than disassemble and assemble non-suitable code. The CMF has its own list. It's a good source of documentation. Ausum ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesper Olsen" <jolsen@despammed.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 6:51 AM Subject: [Zope] CMF Is the CMF still used in Zope? I have looked briefly at the documentation for CMF and Plone - they appear similar. What is the difference - does it make sense to use CMF for developing new sites? The CMF documentation is referenced on the main zope site http://cmf.zope.org/Members/beehive/ZWACKChap5.html but it seems quite old - last updated in 2001, and some notes about a scheduled move, which apperantly has already taken place... Cheers Jesper _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )