[Zope] zope intranet development

kapil thangavelu kthangavelu@earthlink.net
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:16:55 -0700


On Friday 09 August 2002 07:05 am, Maik Jablonski wrote:
> Kevin Sullivan wrote:
> >  Also in starting to build the site, I am faced with
> > choosing DTML or ZPT, any ideas on which is best for this type of
> > project?
>
> - If you have programmers and designers, who should play together:
> choose ZPT and don't think about DTML!
>
> - If you only have "programmers": maybe DTML is much less confusing for
> them [Chris W. might have another opinion on this issue ;-)]. As far as
> I know: DTML is still a little bit faster processed by ZOPE than ZPT...

i generally try to apply the rule of one to zpt vs. dtml. if only one person 
is going to be building and maintaining the system, then dtml is fine, 
otherwise zpt is preferred.

in either case, use of python scripts is key, to keeping your templates clean.

-kapil