[Zope-dev] Using Zope as replacement for BSCW ?

[Christian Scholz]

Hi!

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 01:37:40PM +0200, Tom Deprez wrote:
> >First of all Zope's main job is web publishing (sort of) and thus some
> >features which you have in BSCW are missing in vanilla Zope.
> >Some things which come to mind are:
> >- you don't have notification
> 
> What sort of notification you want to have?

Well, BSCW shows it in the web interfaces, e.g. 
"updated by xxx at yyy" and you can commit it via a button.

And you have the possibility to get an email once a day with
a summary of modifications.

> >- the user interface might be a bit more complicated
> >- object sharing is not that easy as it is in BSCW
> >
> >The last point of course depends on what you need. Basically in Zope
> >you have one directory tree and can give rights for objects (also subdirs)
> >to other people. You don't have actually an home directory for each user.
> >In BSCW on the other hand you have an homedir for each user and if you
> >decide to share an object, a link to this object is simply put into the other
> >users homedirectory. 
> >So it depends on whether you need some private space for your users or not.
> 
> mmm, pehaps is the Zope Portal Toolkit something you need to look at.

Someone else told me also. Unfortunately when trying to install it it did
not work. But I will try again :)

-- christian