[Zope3-dev] IMPORTANT RFS: Through the Web Site Development

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:48:44AM -0500, Shane Hathaway wrote:
| We should strive to reduce the need for common Zope users to write 
| software.  Classes and methods are software.  Once you ask someone to 
| write a class or method, you're better off letting them write an entire 
| module, because you've already crossed the "software development" barrier.

Agreed. And once that happens, theres no turning back.

| Ever since I started maintaining my own Zope site, I've wanted to do two 
| simple things.  I'm coming to believe that a lot of new Zope users want 
| the same things:
| 
| 1) Add metadata to objects following some schema that I define, and 
| search based on that metadata.
| 
| 2) Define what people see if they traverse directly to the object. 
| Although the default view could be defined by the type of the object, I 
| think the default view of something is not necessarily dependent on its 
| type.
| 
| It really shouldn't ever be necessary to write any new software to do 
| either of those things.  I think those simple capabilities would fulfill 
| the expectations of a significant percentage of Zope users who today 
| have to write software.

I couldnt have explained better. +1.

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