[Zope3-dev] Number of languages in Zope 3

[Steve Alexander]

>>> What class of user will _only_ want to install Zope?
>>
>>
>> A system admininstrator. The same user who will want to install an 
>> RDBMS on a system for use by database administrators. This person 
>> doesn't need to know SQL. This person doesn't need to know Python or 
>> ZCML.
> 
> In what circumstances is a system administrator likely to bethe first 
> person in an oganisation who wants to install Zope and start developing 
> in it?

What a silly question. Of course a system administrator, as described in 
my reply above, will not want to install Zope *and* start developing. We 
already established that this system administrator doesn't do the 
developing. The same system administrator won't be making SQL queries to 
the database they installed either.


>>> Under what circumstances would they need to know more than just the 
>>> templating language in order to produce such templates?
>>
>> When they want to do more than write templates.
> 
> What templates do you have that use nothing but plain path expressions 
> or string expressions?

Almost all of them.
Adding code into templates makes for less maintainable templates.



>> Except when it is not:
>>
>>   When you want something that cannot be achieved without
>>   extra complexity.
> 
> 
> And what is this extra complexity buying us?

 From the newly organised front page of the Zope 3 project, you can 
easily find the UserGoalsAndUseCases. They should give you a start in 
understanding what the extra complexity is buying us.

http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/FrontPage

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Steve Alexander