[Zope3-dev] Re: Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

[Martijn Faassen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
[snip]
>> Just splitting stuff up into little flexible pieces won't attract 
>> people. If our goal is to attract Zope 3 developers we need to make it 
>> easy to get started. We can also say that Zope 3 is componentized and 
>> flexible and all that, and this will attract developers too, but if 
>> the first bit is too hard all our talk about flexibility will lead to 
>> nothing.
>>
>> So, we need to do both: make it easy to get started, and 
>> componentizing for greater flexibility later. If we just do the first, 
>> we make Zope 2 style mistakes and end up with a monolithic system that 
>> should be easier to develop with. If we just do the latter, we make 
>> Zope 3 style mistakes and end up with a well componentized system that 
>> isn't used a lot.
> 
> Agreed, we need both.  We should understand though that the thing I'm
> calling (soley for the sake of discussion) is probably not a good
> starting point.  

I think I miss a word here; the thing you're calling what?

> IMO, it could be if someone was working on it.
> I also think that it would be a find project on it's own.  Or maybe
> there's another project that would serve better. I don't know.

I'm trying to understand what you're referring to here. :)

Anyway, I think Grok is one concrete project that's making it a lot 
easier to get started with Zope 3 technology.

Regards,

Martijn