Rant continuing.... Even the Dexterity documentation is outdated for Plone 4.3
http://dexterity-developer-manual.readthedocs.org/en/latest/schema-driven-types.html How should a n00b start with Plone 4.3 and Dexterity without outdated documentation? -aj ajung wrote > Hi there, > > I am slightly annoyed with Dexterity under Plone 4.3. > > In the old days of Archetypes and Plone 4.x I could > easily generate policy packages and the content-type > boilerplate code easily and in a reliable way using > Paster + Zopeskel - perfect world. > > Now with Plone 4.3 and Dexterity everything feels > like a big mess - from the integrators prospective. > > The official way for generating the boilerplate code > seems(?!) to be https://pypi.python.org/pypi/templer.plone. > > First: this package generates code with grok dependencies > that do not work on Plone 4.3 (I wrote an earlier email > about this problem) - can be easily fixed. > > Second: generating a new content-type using templer > generated code that seems to be incompatible with Plone 4.3 > (e.g. an import to plone.directives which seems to > have been refactored into plone.directives.dexterity ... > and so on). > > Now I tried using the same with Plone 4.2 and the generated > code is also not working on Plone 4.2 So what is this > Templer stuff about? Causing trouble and frustration? > > Now tried it the hard-core way and tried to look up the Dexterity > documentation and checked > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.app.dexterity#documentation > > All three links inside the Dexterity documentation section on PyPI > lead to abandoned pages....great...I am pissed. > > > Once again: having elementary functionality for integrators > not working is bad for Plone. Yes, I can fix this all myself > if I had time and interest but here is the chicken-egg problem: > we have various other options available nowadays building > CMS and web application without Plone. And as an integrator > I do have some basic expectations to the framework. Basic > things must just work. > > > Andreas -- View this message in context: http://plone.293351.n2.nabble.com/pissed-Generating-the-Dexterity-boilerplate-for-Plone-4-3-pissed-tp7565313p7565320.html Sent from the Product Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers
