[Zope] Flash tutorials for newbies to Zope

[Michael Ekstrand]

On Friday 16 July 2004 01:04, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> Don't lead newbies to something that will *invariably* lead to
> trouble and break their hearts.

Hmm... I'm curious as to the reason behind the extensive sentiments 
against ZClasses.  As a relative Zope newbie at the beginning of the 
summer, I dove into ZClasses (they were presented in the Zope Book, and 
seemed conveient). Granted, they had some oddities I had to learn 
about. But with the help of a couple Python base classes, they've 
treated me pretty well, and made it relatively easy to build the 
administration interface around my product.

It frustrated me that I couldn't have a "standard" Properties sheet with 
them (i.e., that allows for addition and deletion of properties), but 
an extremely simple base class that does nothing but inherit from 
PropertyManager took care of that.

So in short, I've played with them... and my heart isn't broken... and I 
haven't seen much trouble yet. Why are they so detested, and what are 
the reasons for not developing the concept further? I'm sure there's a 
reason - it's just eluding me at this time. Or perhaps I haven't tried 
pushing them hard enough to have problems.

-Michael