[Zope3-Users] New User: Zope 2, or Zope 3?

[Chris Cogdon]

Hi folks! I'm starting work on a from-scratch web application, and I'd 
like to use this as a first-time-application using Zope.

(Actually, this is not really the first time... but my previous was 
something really simple way back in the Zope 1 days, so... just pretend 
this is first-time).

I'm trying to get started quickly (of course), and want to do it 
reading as much documentation as possible, without depending on you 
fine folk too much for help. From my research it seems that there's a 
bunch of documentation and tutorials geared around Zope 2, but not 
anywhere near as much for Zope 3, and Zope 3 seems a vastly different 
beast than '2'.

So, my question is... should I stick with Zope 2 for the moment (with 
its plethora of documentation), or dive right into Zope 3 and battle it 
out (and depend more on the community for any lack of documentation)? 
In particular, I DO want a decent tutorial to work through to get me 
started (and I cant find one of any depth at all for Zope 3).

Or... can I use the Zope 2 tutorials to work through Zope 3 ??

My background: I'm a seasoned python developer, and have written my own 
web-frameworks for various applications. This time I want to use 
something more 'mainstream' so other developers on the project have 
something 'familiar' to work with, or at least something that will be 
useful to learn. The application will need to connect to a PostgreSQL 
database, and would like some simple authentication plugins so 
end-users of the application can create accounts, log in, and have data 
restricted based on logins. Nothing much more fancy than that.


Thanks kindly for your consideration!


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