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

[J Cameron Cooper]

Jake wrote:

> Does Plone as an installation over write anything in CMF Default? Can 
> the two live side by side in the same Zope instance? 

As you can see from the installation procedures -- unless you use one of 
the automatic installers -- Plone touches nothing else. It does tend to 
require specific versions of CMF, though, which may be a problem 
depending on what you're already running.

> 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. 

The CMF invloves a lot of new machinery, like the skins tool, and the 
default Plone templates are probably more complex than what you're 
lookig at in comparison, so this is not surprising. I think you'll find 
CMFDefault faster than Plone but only slightly so.

            --jcc