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

[Steve Alexander]

Casey Duncan wrote:
> On Monday 13 January 2003 07:36 am, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>I've written some science fiction documentation:
>>
>>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ThroughTheWebSiteDevelopment
>>
>>that sketches out a model for site development in Zope 3.
>>
>>I really need feedback on this. Comments are more than welcome.
>>Feel free to comment here or on the wiki page.
> 
> 
> This to me seems like a huge diversion to handle a few special cases and 
> reinvent something we can already do through Python, ZCML and ZPT on the file 
> system. 
> 
> The curmugeon in me sees a lot of technology in here to reinvent something 
> that we as a community have spent (and continue to spend) a lot of time and 
> energy debunking.
> 
> In more concrete terms, do we we really need this for Zope 3.0? Or is it just 
> a potential "nice to have"?

While I don't need to have all this "through the web", I do need to have 
it "locally" and not "globally". Right now, I don't much care if the 
configuration is through the web, by synchronising to the filesystem, or 
by some other means. TTW is a good enough place to start, though.

One of the major commercial reasons I'm spending time developing Zope 3 
is do I can easily modify the behaviour and presentation of different 
instances of a product.

--
Steve Alexander