[Zope-CMF] CMF Default & Plone play well together?

[Jean-Marc Orliaguet]

Jake wrote:

> Days later and I am still "deep diving" into Plone. I have installed 
> it a few times and would like to throw together a first pass new site 
> with it but am concerned about putting in a Plone installation in my 
> main Zope/CMF site.
>
> Does Plone as an installation over write anything in CMF Default? Can 
> the two live side by side in the same Zope instance?
>
> Also, just as a first pass, with the exact same content (meaning I put 
> the Zope default welcome page as the Plone default page in a new Plone 
> site) Plone seems to run about 50% slower than Zope alone. I need to 
> try a default CMF install as well to compare.
>
> Jake
>
it depends  on what you want from Plone. If it's only the look you want, 
try CPSSkins ( http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/ ) with the "Plone 
theme" it works both with CMF1.3.x and CMF1.4.x and will require no data 
migration since only the graphical appearance is changed.

It will look like this:
http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/cmf-3.png

In terms of performance, you can cache most of the UI elements directly. 
There is also a performance profiler:

with cache off:
http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/cmf-1.png

with cache on:
http://www.medic.chalmers.se/~jmo/CPS/cmf-2.png


If you want something else than modifying the appearance of your CMF 
site, then I don't know.

Regards /JM

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