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

[Shane Hathaway]

Casey Duncan wrote:
> The filesystem lets you use whatever tool you want. I see TTW dev being more 
> limiting in this regard, external editor not withstanding. Who *wants* to use 
> a web gui? Futhermore who *wants* to make one?

Umm... people who use Zope apparently want a web GUI.  You can count me 
in.  I like making web GUIs too. :-)

The heart of the matter is that we don't want a huge shift when Zope 
newcomers become Zope developers.  We need to eliminate the "Z-shaped 
learning curve".  To achieve that, there must not be a sharp transition 
from TTW development to filesystem-based development.  Ideally, there 
should be no transition at all.

That doesn't mean we have to replicate everything you can do on the 
filesystem in Zope.  But it does mean that a few crucial configuration 
management features need to be designed in from the start.

> I'm 
> certainly not advocating reinventing CMF paradigms. I'm just approaching this 
> with a healthy does of skepticism, perhaps even cynicism, unfortunately.

No, I think skepticism is good.  It may refine the proposal.

Shane