Zope questions and comments (&Tkinter???)

[Carlos Ribeiro]

My personal opinion about Zope (your mileage may vary):

The concept behind Zope is great. However, when I tried it (about one year 
ago), I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out things from the 
documentation. The template language (DTML) is a hack, and although the 
system is designed to be easily extensible using Python itself, I couldn't 
manage to make it myself. Zope is big, and the documentation make things 
harder by mixing the architectural and the implementation details. I for 
myself find things much easier if I get a good description of the 
architecture first, to dive into details later.

Since then I've visited Zope's website a few times. The documentation has 
greatly improved, but I never found time to install it again. So I don't 
know what is the state right now. Working with Zope seems to involve some 
planning; it's not a tool that's supposed to be mastered by casual use, but 
one that takes some previous study before going into actual usage.

Maybe things have changed, but that was my experience. Just hope that I'm 
wrong :-)


Carlos Ribeiro