[Grok-dev] Re: Web site ready for relaunch?

[Martijn Faassen]

Kevin Teague wrote:
[snip]
> I've also been thinking it would be quite nice to add TAL docs to the 
> Grok doc site. When people new to Zope want to learn TAL I usually tell 
> them too Google for "plope tal". Aside from the funny looks I get when I 
> say the word "plope" the TAL docs from The Zope Book doesn't always make 
> sense in the context of Grok, there are things such as:
> 
> "A good rule of thumb is that if you need Python to express your logic, 
> you better factor out the code into a script. But Zope is a good tool 
> for prototyping and sometimes it would be overkill to write a script for 
> one line of code."
> 
> or
> 
> "A later release of Zope will probably include technologies from and 
> inspired by the CMF."
> 
> http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/ZPT.stx

It'd be nice indeed if someone would volunteer to edit this, 
restructured-textify it, and put it online. If the license allows, of 
course.

There is also a TAL reference floating around which might contain useful 
information. This one, I think:

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/AppendixC.stx

(there appears to be a 2_7 edition behind a password :)

Regards,

Martijn