+1 to xdv as long as it gets a decent new name. ;) Now that xdv supports CSS-style selectors, it's by far the most compelling choice.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Martin Aspeli <optilude+li...@gmail.com<optilude%2bli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Tom Gross wrote: > >> On 03/12/2010 04:07 PM, Hanno Schlichting wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> ... >> >>> On the "future" side we have: >>> >>> - Chameleon >>> - Deco / Blocks >>> - Dexterity >>> - WSGI >>> - xdv as the default theming story >>> >> >> Is there still discussion space to choose between xdv and Deliverance. >> I'm not to deep in the subject but I have heard that Deliverance can be >> used with other web-applications, but xdv is Plone specific. >> If this is true, Deliverance would open Plone to a broader community. >> > > Where did you hear that? It's not correct. ;-) > > Deliverance is a Python-based implementation. It is used either as a > standalone proxy or in a WSGI pipeline. As such, it may be attractive to > people with a WSGI-oriented stack. It also has more client-side tools and is > generally broader in scope than XDV. > > XDV is an XSLT-based implementation. You compile theme + rules into an > XSLT, which is then deployed either in a WSGI pipeline step, or in a web > server like nginx or Apache. As such, it is even broader in scope in the > sense that it's not tied to Python. > > collective.xdv is a Plone control panel + hook to apply an XDV theme > without the need for a fronting web server. This is a good solution for > people with no further integration needs. However, the same theme + rules > can be compiled and deployed as an XSLT if that's desirable. > > Probably the most important deciding factor is that XDV is more > lightweight, overlaps less with existing tools, should be faster, and - > crucially - has more uptake in the community. With Plone 3 and Plone 4 at > least it's also easier to set up and deploy than Deliverance, which ether > requires a standalone process that proxies to Zope, or adoptation of > repoze.zope2 to get a WSGI stack in Zope. > > > Martin > > -- > Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who > want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book > > > _______________________________________________ > Framework-Team mailing list > Framework-Team@lists.plone.org > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/framework-team > -- Alexander Limi · http://limi.net
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