Zope3 Examples?

[Markus Wankus]

Jean-François Doyon wrote:
> Markus,
> 
> Zope 3 is mature as a framework, but does not provide much "out of the 
> box".  It's a basis upon which to build applications like Plone ... If 
> you are looking for something that provides Plone-like features on top 
> of Zope 3, it doesn't exist (yet).
> 
> Personally, I'm waiting for this: http://www.z3lab.org/
> But it'll be a while yet!
> 

Yes - I was watching the screencasts (well, animations) on this and it 
looks incredible!  I can't wait to play with something like this.

> Zope 3 is brilliant, but complex, and quite the departure from Zope 2, 
> so it'll take a while for the take up to occur.
> 
> What might work better for you is to use Zope 2 + the CMF, without 
> Plone.  Plone can be fairly heavy and rigid, the CMF alone might give 
> you the tools you need.  I use Zope 2 with success and good performance 
> on a hig traffic website, I wouldn't discount it just because of your 
> first impression ... There are many tweaks available that will 
> considerably improve performance for production systems.
> 
> Cheers,
> J.F.
> 

Thanks for the reply - maybe I'll give it another shot.  I'm currently 
demoing Snakelets.  Quite a turn in the opposite direction, but small 
and super-easy to get going with.  I think once this project gets a few 
good webapps under its belt (and maybe I can contribute there!) this 
could be a nice solution for many people.  At least a good starting 
point for someone like me who knows a good deal about Python and nothing 
about web frameworks.

Markus.