[Zope] using Zope2 for a newbie?

[Paul Everitt]

Daniel Pfile wrote:
> 
> Hi there, I've been reading about Zope for a while now, I've had 1.1x
> running on my main server with rewrite, and Zope2 running on my personal
> system with the built in server. This afternoon I'm going to start really
> digging in and learning zope by building a (non important) website with
> it. I was wondering if it is better to go with Zope1 or Zope2. As far as
> upgrading goes. I'm a pretty capable unix user with several years
> experience at that. Before I've done alot of projects with perl and c.
> I've also done alot with Frontier on Mac and Windows, so the concept of an
> odb is not new to me. I hope to learn enough zope to dig in and develop
> some cool stuff. My python skills aren't the best yet, but I am getting
> better.
> 
> So I guess my question is, with my background should I bother learning how
> zope1 works, or just skip to zope2?

Go to Zope2 and take a look at Z Classes.  Background material is at:

  http://www.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-May/004121.html

--Paul