[Zope-dev] CMF and 2.4.0

[Kevin Dangoor]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Johnson" <tacomabbs@hotmail.com>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:43 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] CMF and 2.4.0


>   Zope core manages content by itself.  So how you gonna have by the same
> company, two products that basically do the same thing.  Sounds like
> doublespeak, and a good way to get some salaries shuffeled around.
>   Imho having them labeled 2 separate products will end up being a
hindrance
> to the overall project anyway.  I'll take it anyway I can get it.
> I don't have any complaints, I love what's going on.  I just don't
> understand parts of it.

I think there is a significant difference between Zope and CMF, and that it
doesn't make sense to merge the two.

To me, Zope is an Internet application framework that provides a whole lot
of useful features for people who are building those apps and a decent web
based UI for managing those apps. The CMF leverages the Zope framework to
provide a nice content management system right out of the box. It provides
the necessary workflow support, plus a whole bunch of additional user
interface to make things functional for people running content driven sites.

Some of the framework sorts of things the CMF provides will become a
"fully-blessed" part of Zope via the forthcoming component model... but all
of that UI and functionality geared specifically toward content management
is best left as a separate piece, IMHO.

Kevin Dangoor
Product Development Manager
Web Elite