If you're still looking at doing comparisons, you might also think about Ruby on Rails, since there's a growing contingent of Rails/Ruby folks within the church
On 3/5/07, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I haven't had much direct experience with Plone, and the last time I used Zope was some 7 years ago (incidentally for a ward website). But I am involved with various python communities and the question of Plone is brought up quite often. Then common response is: "use the right tool for the job". So to expand on that, if plone gives you 50-70% of what you need, then perhaps it is the right tool. If plone doesn't give you much, then the correct tool might be to create your own tool. The common knowledge is that one you try to do something fancy in Plone, things get hard pretty quickly and you have a steep learning curve. (Which is why a year ago at pycon, Plone founders were touting that it is easy to make a living doing plone, because so many people need customizations that require a lower level understanding of the python/zope underpinnings of Plone). Perhaps Drupal might give you similar functionality or moreso (depending on how much is provided by plugins), and how much you need to create yourself. I'd probably pull up Plone and perhaps Drupal and see how far they can get you. Your problem description was a little vague.... If you find that they don't give you much of what you want and if you are wed to python (which is a smart choice IMNHO), consider using a python web framework. I don't think you can go wrong with Django, TurboGears or Pylons. Django is used to create CMS's and you can get up and running quite quickly. Pylons and TG are more flexible, the main difference between them being that Pylons is looking like what TG will be in future editions, but TG has a bigger community around it. Good luck. -matt On 3/5/07, Gordon Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does any one have oppinions and more importantly experience with Plone on > Zope? > > The church is considering building a Research knowledge-base using these > tools. > > Please send your comments and experience with these tools. > > Thanks, > > Gordon Clarke > FamilySearch DevNet Manager > ________________________________ > NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) > and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized > review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the > intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all > copies of the original message. > > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
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