[Zope-PTK] PTK membership: impossible/really hard to do just now?

[Dennis Nichols]

My goal is to put together a PTK-based site using a MySQL db for the user 
database. I started 4 months ago developing the application based on Zope 
PTK without worrying about the login/user source stuff back then. Now it's 
time to go to a production site and use real-world user logins (and lots of 
them) but it looks to me like stability and  implementability of Zope 
and/or PTK is less settled now than it has been for some time.

My particular problem is the login stuff. As far as I can tell...

a) previous login stuff has been separated from the PTK in latest version

b) the preferred login/user source method is to use LoginMaster, whose 
HowTo says only "Coming soon..." and I find it impossible to muddle through 
this complex product. There is no ready-made MySQL source or any other 
source that could serve as a reasonably complete model.

c) Membership (aka PortalMembership?) looks very promising but what is 
there is alpha, and worse yet "There is currently no support for using it 
in the PTK"

Does this mean I should stay at Zope 2.16 and PTK 0.7.1?

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Dennis Nichols
nichols@tradingconnections.com