[Mailman-Developers] ZMailman 2.1 preview

Bob Puff@NLE bob@nleaudio.com
Sun, 09 Dec 2001 21:22:11 -0500


> > I don't understand Zope; can someone describe why I might want
> > this, what it buys me, etc. (like a sales brochure)?
> 
> Think a semi-OO based PHP setup where the OO as[ects extended not
> only to the internal language, but also to the construction of page
> elements and templates, and of course, instead of using PHP, use
> Python and much more cleanly abstracted DB interface.  Probably the
> biggest other difference is that Zope natievly works off a single
> unified store rather than the filesystem.

..... riiiighhht..... <g>

So what does that mean?  For those of us no-zopers! :-)

Bob