[Zope] Searching For MacOS X Version of Zope.

[Bernd Kulawik]

Am Donnerstag, 16.01.03, um 20:40 Uhr (Europe/Rome) schrieb Kevin Gomez:

> I am interested in installing Zope and testing it on my home Mac. I am 
> running MacOS X 10.2.3.

I'm running Zope 2.5.1 and 2.6.0 on Mac OSX without (almost - see 
below) any problems.
Beside the hint to http://zope-mosx.zopeonarope.com, it might the 
useful for you to check out the installer offered on
http://plone.org
(In my case it didn't start from the OSX control interface properly, 
that comes with it, so I start it manually from the always-beloved 
terminal, but everything else works fine.)

>
> I currently use Postnuke http://www.postnuke.com as my CMS. Can you 
> please explain the difference between the two?

The main difference - IMHO and beside the things that where mentioned 
before - is the structure of the both: while Postnuke (AFAIR) is based 
on PHP and a relational database management system using SQL, Zope 
comes with an object-oriented database (ZODB) and its own web-, ftp- 
and webDAV-servers. It is written in Python, an easy-to-learn 
object-oriented language, and itself object-oriented. This gives you 
some nice features, like inheritance, and the possibility to construct 
new kinds of "objects" (resp. "classes", the "templates" for your 
objects) in an easy way. So, everything you need for a web portal is 
already on hand, especially tools for the membership maintainance: I 
suggest trying Plone (or CMF = Content management framework), to see, 
how easy it can be :-)
If you need relational database features, it is no problem to put 
almost any SQL-DB "behind" Zope: Adapters for almost all relevant RDBMS 
are there.
And Zope's page template language helps you to not mix-up content and 
presentation, one of the "traps" in PHP ...

So, I hope this may help you in your decision, if not: "Move over to 
Zope! Now!" :-)

Bernd

PS: ... and: Zope has a really very, great community of developers and 
users.

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> Any information is helpful.
> Thank you.
> Kevin Gomez
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