[Zope-PTK] Membership separate from Portal?

[Kevin Dangoor]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Pelletier" <mike@digicool.com>
To: "Kevin Dangoor" <kid@kendermedia.com>
Cc: <zope-ptk@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] Membership separate from Portal?


> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
>
> >     Like Membership, for example. Will the membership features (and the
new
> > LoginManager things) be strictly a part of the Portal? It seems like
> > LoginManager could be a useful new component for Zope itself...
>
>     Exactly so!  LoginManager is being developed as a separate Product,
> which the PTK uses.  So, yes, it will be available for other uses.

Ahh... Glad to hear I misunderstood! :)

> >     (It also seems like people might want to be able to use News Items
and
> > Document objects without necessarily having a number of the other Portal
> > features...)
>
>     Stripped of their PortalContent ancestory, these objects are so
> trivial they don't even warrent reuse.  Reverse engineering them as
> ZClasses would take less time than trying to extract the Portal portions
> of these versions.

You're probably right about that, I guess. The ZClasses are pretty simple.
Though, I do think that newbies would appreciate having the Document ZClass.
That's a way for them to create docs without touching DTML at all.

Kevin