[Zope] zope higher abstraction installation

[Olaf Zanger]

hi there,

on the survey on digicool i added some ideas to make the first step into zope easier.
i'd like to hear your ideas about that and if any of that is already acomplished
somewhere.

* a roundtrip visual-RAD-database form/reports environment (visual to source and
back) (better than MS-Access and probably with import of forms/reports form
theKompany-REKALL and MS Access or other forms/reports designers :-) 

*  out of the box multi language and database support

* a closed zope installation option. means zope does not use local python or so. i
had heaps of trouble with different versions of python, python-database modules and
db-connector products (i rather have two pythons on disc than troubles with zope
after updating my suse distro) still not solved after 3 months :-(. actually this
stopped development of a product on zope.

* faster implementation of patches (there is one problem with dtml-in orphans trouble
that got a patch about 6 months ago and is still not solved in new zope versions)

* a setup process, where the newbee-user can select what products should be pre
installed. 
(e.g. according to usage questions like 
news-discussion -> squishdot, 
db-mysql -> MySQLdb+formulator
db-pgsql -> PgSQLdb+ZDatabaseTool+QueryWizard(hopefully to be released by
easyleading), 
Content-management -> CMF, XML, 
Templates -> ZPT, 
PIM -> iuveno-projector+others, 
eks -> KDESoHoServer-Components, 
multi-language-mysql -> MySQLdb+ZBabel,
documentation -> local-zope-book,
faq -> local-faq)

-- this would show the capabilities of zope right away to the newbee. i remember how
it took me weeks to figure out what zope can do.

-- this also would move some zope companies into focus to the newbee that might want
to spend money and outsource development.

-- zope would grow into a plug-and-play-intranet/internet problem solver application

hope for opinions

olaf



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