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

Jake jake at zopezone.com
Sun Feb 8 11:19:41 EST 2004


I actually want to build an entire Plone site (got a new client who 
wants a site) so I was looking to see if anything in Plone overwrites 
CMF. From what I have played with, it looks like I can have CMF bare 
sites and Plone sites all in one big Zope installation.

Jake

On Feb 8, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> Jean-Marc Orliaguet - ITA
> - http://www.ita.chalmers.se/~jmo
> - Tel: +46 (0)31 772 8581
>
>




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