[Zope-CMF] CMF or Plone Applications?
David Pratt
fairwinds at eastlink.ca
Fri Dec 17 14:05:09 EST 2004
With recent discussion on Plone concerning the GPL, it has me
considering where I ought to be putting my future effort since anything
connected to Plone would need to be GPL from what I am hearing. At
this point, it hasn't been an issue for any application delivering
services through Plone (which is fine) but the notion of distributing
software is another question all together.
I have had ideas for something other than using Plone in the future to
this end and the ZPL seems more friendly since I can distribute a
complete application this way without licensing issues.
I have been digging in to Plone and the CMF for just over a year and
continue to learn more all the time. Many, if not most of the ready
made products that I want to use, are CMF products with ZPL licensing.
In addition, with Plone, I have found that I want to go beyond minor
customizations of the templates to changes that will simplify much of
the base I wish to build from. I have been creating skin products to
give me what I want in the way of templates and CSS. I have also had
some concerns about the responsiveness of Plone even with an Apache
front end and feel that something lighter would work better for
applications I may want to develop in the future. Smaller headers,
simplified CSS, and lighter templates together with caching is perhaps
the direction I feel I ought to be going. I guess at this stage I am
wondering whether I should continue bending Plone to what I want to do
in an application or simply acknowledge that Plone is better for a
generic portals and go a different route on application development
with CMF and Zope alone.
Maybe good ZPL-tableless Skin with simple portlet mechanism is all that
I need to keep everything within the bounds of the ZPL and CMF both.
Are there any efforts in this direction or would I be on my own with
this.
The question is really one of making the leap. I guess this would mean
a mechanism to display portlets, new portlet templates, and a bunch of
templating to remove alot of the tables from the ZPT default templates
and using GRUF. What else would be missing? Is this a bit insane?
Perhaps anyone that has contemplated this or work in CMF as opposed to
Plone could provide their feedback. Many thanks.
David
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