[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Zope Futures discussion: your input

[Stefan Kuzminski]

>>>>> ">" == Ross Boylan <rboylan@mindspring.com> writes:

Simplification..

I couldn't agree more with this assessment, Zope is beautiful and powerful but
just finding the right level to code at can be a challenge. The relationship
between browser/dtml and the python space is especially difficult to decypher,
especially from the dtml side. I'm not convinced of the value of dtml since
Python is so easy to learn and using a markup language for programming tasks
leaves something to be desired..


>> I think the key issues are 1) Documentation and 2) Simplification of the
>> actual system and 3) Documentation

>> Though 2) is more ambitious, it would obviously make 1) easier.

>> For example, there are ZClasses, python classes, other objects created in
>> the Zope tree. There's also dtml.

>> Want to add a variable? It could go in a ZClass, python class, or be
>> "property" (if I have the right lingo) thrown into an existing object which
>> obeys the management interface.

>> There's more than one way to do it (tm) is someone else's slogan!

>> I, and I think others, have struggled with exactly how information and
>> calls on the browser/dtml side map to and from stuff happening in python
>> space.


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