[Zope] Future of Zope

[Ian Clarke]

As a new Zope user I am very very impressed by the amount of work that
has gone into this software.  I must confess though that I find DTML a
little cumbersome to use, and debugging is very difficult (I have yet to
find a solution to the problem I described in my "Problems with
<dtml-tree>" thread).

Is there any prospect of some form of friendlier developer GUI to Zope,
perhaps a Java client.  Features such as Syntax highlighting of DTML,
and a better error description system, would greatly enhance the ease of
use of Zope.  Further, such a system would not need to replace the
present HTML interface, but could be used optionally.  I may be showing
my newbieness here, but I guess a good first step might be a Java
conduit to the Zope database - perhaps one already exists.

I am not knocking the hard work that developers have put into the
system, however I suspect these are the questions that many Zope newbies
will be asking.  

Ian.

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