[Zope] reality check

Jonothan Farr jfarr@speakeasy.org
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:40:09 -0800


I thought this forward would be of interest to the DC folks and the community
at large.

-jfarr

>
> Zope has some of the worst documentation I have ever encountered.  I
> paged through it for a while and was unable to get to any actual
> information, just marketing-esque hype.  I turned the investigation
> over to my typically very fast research guy, figuring maybe I just had
> the wrong set of docs or something; after learning Python and spending
> several solid weeks of trying to figure out how to get it to update
> objects in Oracle (vs. just view them), he gave up on it; we aren't
> going to use it.
>
> It's a good idea, and I hear only good things about Python, but Zope
> is Just Not There Yet.
>
> YMMV,
> Brenda