On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:22:33PM -0600, Stephan Richter wrote: > At 11:10 PM 12/9/2001 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > I don't understand Zope; can someone describe why I might want this, > > > what it buys me, etc. (like a sales brochure)? > > > >It doesn't necessarily buy you anything, unless you already need Zope. > > Right, ZMailman is not for people not using Zope. However, it makes the > integration of Mailing List functionality into your Web Site so easy, that > I thought some of you might be interested.
Ok, good; I'm glad I pegged it. I'm one of those -- I propose to use Zope to build a bunch o'websites that are on my plate; I'll need this integration. Will it integrate directly with UserFolders, so users can do their mailing list stuff on their home page? > >This was more for Zopatistas who need to run mailing lists, rather than > >Mailman people, not that it isn't a cool hack. > > Yes, and I think quite some people need that. Just looking at all these CMS > and community sites... You bet. > >I think I like Zope, too; I just can't get it to stand still long > >enough to learn it. Maybe I'm getting old... > > Well, try to get into Zope 3.0, which is being built at the moment. It > makes use of the latest development and design patterns, so it is good to > look at it in anyway, whether you are interested in Zope or not. Alas all the books are still 2.2/2.4ish. Any decent non-zoo tutorials? (WADR to whomever wrote that particular tutorial track, it stinks.) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "If you don't have a dream; how're you gonna have a dream come true?" -- Captain Sensible, The Damned (from South Pacific's "Happy Talk") _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
