[Zope-CMF] CMF things I'd like to see more doco on

Shane Hathaway shane@digicool.com
Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:46:40 -0400


Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> I've been using Zope for a few months and CMF for a few weeks now.
> I must confess to being very impressed - congrats to all involved.

Thanks!

> * how to manage PDF and Word doc?

This is an unfinished piece at present.  The thing that's holding it up 
IMHO is the conversion strategy: I think we should spawn an external 
process to perform conversions so as to not burden Zope and so that if the 
conversion crashes it doesn't bring down Zope with it.  It would also mean 
that the converters don't have to have a Python binding.

All the conversion products I've heard of, however, perform the conversion 
within the process.  I don't see why.

> * how to design portals to ease upgrades and copying?

Look at the PortalGenerator class in CMFDefault.  You could customize it by 
subclassing it.

> PS: A final comment: CMF *really* needs an (updated) 'add-on'
> page somewhere. Scanning the email archives has revealed lots
> of great things but they aren't very public as best I can see!

We didn't expect so many add-ons so soon.  The CMF architecture needs to 
support them better.  That's what I'd like to see first.

Shane