Exploring Zope and ZPatterns [WEB] [IDEA]

azazel azazel at lizard.homelinux.net
Thu Oct 23 19:15:38 UTC 2003


>> Someone has already done something of similar?

> A documentation of SmallWiki can be found at:
>
> 	http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/smallwiki/smallwiki.pdf

interesting!
>
>> What do you think of Zope?
>
> - I do not like to work with request and response directly, this is too
> low-level to build real applications. Seaside and SmallWiki both have
> nice concepts to avoid working with header-fields.
>

what  is thekind of mechanism they use to handle with header fields?

>
> - I want to debug/test my code, but Zope doesn't allow (out of the box).

false, it's a python program, and you can use the normal pdb, the debugger that comes with
every python installation.

>
> - ...
>
> By-the-way, Zope has been designed by a former Smalltalker. He choose to
> go for Python as he thinks its syntax is cleaner and the multiple-
> inheritance is missing. Ohh boy, ... :-(
>

but a developer can have a good "web" productivity with zope, when he knows the beast..

Alberto



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