[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: zopeproject

[Tres Seaver]

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Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On 7/19/07, Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:
>> But, Zope is quite easy on entry.
> 
> Zope2, yes.
> Zope3? Not at all.
> 
> Will modularizing Zope 3 make it easier for newbies? Not really, but
> with zopeproject or similar it shouldn't be more complicated either.
> In fact, the installation process might end up being simpler:
> 
> Compare:
> 
> wget http://www.zope.org/whatevah/Zope.tgz
> tar xvfz thetgz
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> make instance directory
> 
> With:
> 
> easy_install zopeproject
> zopeproject directory
> cd directory
> bin/buildout
> 
> Or something similar to that. Doesn't really look more complicated to me. :-)
> Sure, it uses paste and stuff, but you don't have to know about that to use it.

I think we need to leave soem space for people who want to customize the
site, without wanting to do "full-on" Zope3 package-based development.
If zopeproject makes it obvious where to put "filesystem pages", people
will use them, probably.


Tres.
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