[Zope] Zope Alternative

[Hafeliel]

My thanks to everyone who took the time to reply.

Here's what I'm hearing:

[1] Many of you agree that the Zope Book is woefully
incomplete.  Paul, for example, was kind enough to
point out that the Image class is a descendent of the
Persistent class.

I opened my Zope Book back up to see how I could have
missed this, and as I expected, the book doesn't show
this ancestorage.  In fact, the Persistent class isn't
listed in Appendix B at all.

[2] Some of you felt that it is acceptable that Zope's
"complete docs" are scattered across the web.  I
disagree.  The Zope Book should be complete if it's
going to pretend to be the docs for Zope.

The docs for Python, for example, seem to be complete.
 You might have to surf around a bit to find an
example that does what you want, but you don't have to
dig into the source for Python just to find out what
methods are available to a given class! That's not
acceptable IMHO.

[3] Many of you have attacked me personally. 
<sarcasm> Gee, thanks. </sarcasm>  I am not a troll. 
A troll is a person who takes only a minute to toss a
match into dry brush so he can watch the fire break
out.  I, on the other hand, am trying to create
something.  I'm investing my time by creating a wiki,
I'm soliciting advice from people who know more about
Zope than I do (you guys), I'm writing code, and I'm
trying to create something better.

By calling me names, you've essentially elevated Zope
to the stature of a religion and are branding me a
heretic for daring to question it.  That's not how an
open source community should work.

If you do not like the direction I'm headed, then by
all means, do not follow.  Stick with Zope and enjoy
it, but I personally think that a light-weight
alternative that doesn't protect us from doing what we
want to do would be better.

How big is a Zope install, 20M?  I'm not at my home PC
at the moment, so I can't check.  I'm betting that all
the good stuff Zope really needs could fit in 50k. 
That leaves a 19.95M barrier to entry.  I feel that
all this overhead is some of what is keeping people
away from Zope.

[4] Many of you hate the wiki.  My apologies.  Rome
wasn't built in a day.  A good wiki is good because so
many people contribute to it.  Until more people
contribute, you can only expect so much.

Perry, I'm sorry you had problems with the wiki
software.  It seems to work best if you configure IE
so that it doesn't block cookies from that domain.

[5] Several of you defended Zope by saying that it
evolved to be the beast that it is.  Frankly, that's a
terrible reason to live with a mess.  Sometimes it
takes starting over to get going in the right
direction.

[6] You're right that I'm totally ignorant about Zope
3.  I've never played with it.  I will try to make
some time for that.  However, my gripes with the
original Zope is that there is too much.  I really
just want the Zope basics.  Adding more to Zope will
not make me happier.

That's why I'm pushing to making it an Apache module. 
Apache is wildly popular and used in a tremendous
number of servers.  It already does most everything,
so why re-invent the wheel?  Let's just add on the few
missing pieces so we can give developers the tools
they need to build the rest of the car.

As for me, personally, I'm going to press on making a
Zope alternative.  I don't mean it as any insult to
anyone who loves Zope.

A buddy of mine drew some parallels to an SQL product
he uses.  Someone created an SQL Lite version of it
for people who don't need all of the SQL's advanced
features.  By doing so, it was not an insult to those
who created the SQL program in the first place.  It
was merely an alternative for projects where the Lite
version was better suited.

So follow if you dare, help if you'd like, but shout
your insults at my back.  I see no reason to stick
around a community that treats me like this when I'm
only trying to help.


 
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