[Zope-CMF] Coments on Z2.5b1 with CMF and friends

[Bill Anderson]

On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 19:17, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Bill Anderson wrote:
> 
> > OK, figured I'd try it out, using zope 2.5, python 2.1.1 and CMF*
> > 
> > 
> > CMF Version: Checkout from yesterday.
> > 
> > CMF Site
> > --------
> > 
> > New -> Document -> Upload STX file:
> > Silently fails. No data is uploaded, but it doesn't complain. This is
> > bad.
> 
> 
> Thanks for reporting this;  you win the prize for noting the bug between its
> checkin and my refresh (I actually spotted the bug in the checkins message).
> 

hehehe ...

> Jens posted a tracker issue which included your bug, and which I have now
> resolved:
> 
>    http://www.zope.org/Products/PTK/Tracker/417
> 
> 'cvs -q up -dP' should remove the bug. 

Cool, I'll refresh tonight.


> > 
> > CMF News Items
> > --------------
> > More of a request ... how about a structured-text/html radio button, and
> > a means of uploading the body, pretty please?
> 
> 
> Given that NewsItems really *are* Documents under the hood, you could just
> rewire your 'portal_actions/NewsItem' object to use 'document_edit_form'
> instead of 'newsitem_edit_form' as its 'edit' action.

Cool.


> > CMF Collector
> > -------------
> > I had hopes for this one. Unfortunately, it *requires* ZPT, which is
> > installed as base zope now. The sad part is, it makes it completely
> > incompatible with other skins. how about a default, basic skin, please?
> > In order for Collector to be integrated, it requires an understanding of
> > ZPT, in order to convert it to dtml. I would say that while DTML is
> > still the default, CMF* products should come with dtml skin objects.
> > Including a ZPT version would be nice, but not required.
> 
> 
> We are close to releasing CMF 1.2, which will have ZPT skins available
> by default.  We do not plan to do new development on the DTML skins after
> that release, although we welcome patches to the DTML skins.  Actually,
> we would welcome community volunteers to maintain the DTML skins;  can I
> read your "I would say" as a willingness to help?

Yes. I believe I have a few patches lying around already. If someone had
a DTML version of the Collector skins, I'd be happy to maintain them
too.

> > Installation. It appears that this one strays from the de facto install
> > procedure. On all other CMF installs, the module is "CMFFoo.Install",
> > and the method is "install". This one changes that. It'd be a simple
> > change, really.
> > 
> > CMF Wiki
> > --------
> > Looks good, integrates well. Needs a way to set the Wiki Title w/o using
> > ZMI.
> 
> 
> Yep, this is a peeve of mine as well.  CMFWiki is "unsupported" at the
> moment (and likely to remain so), but I will fix this one just because
> it irritates me.

Woohoo!! :^)=

> 
> 
> > CMF Decor
> > ---------
> > Has an Install method, but is not documented that it is needed.
> 
> 
> It won't be needed for "new" sites created after the 1.2 release, as
> the ZPT skin will be automatically added during site creation.  I think
> Jens has added a note anyway, both for the interim and FBO existing sites.
> 
> Thanks very much for the feedback, and for volunteering ;)

No problem. :)

Bill

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