Dylan Jay wrote:
Martin Aspeli wrote:
Hi guys,
Following a long discussion with Dylan Jay (buried in another thread
on Devilstick terminology), I thought I'd conduct an informal poll.
==> As a customiser of Plone, or as someone wanting to build bespoke
components that extend Plone, what do you find most confusing?
I think this could fall into a few categories:
- Areas where there's insufficient/poor documentation, but once you
learn how to do something, it's clear how to proceed.
- Areas where there appears to be more than one approach, and it's
not clear which one to choose
- Areas where Plone doesn't appear to have a good way to do something
Please keep replies as succinct and factual as possible. I'm really
not interested in a winge fest by people who've been frustrated in the
past. I'd much rather have constructive feedback on where the pain is
and, if possible, suggestions for how to improve things.
One thing that I think works well is generic setup. In that I understand
that its where I go to have things configured on install, I can look and
find examples of how other products have done it by doing a simple
search for all "catalog.xml" for instance. So by saying it works well I
mean its easy to understand and easy to use (from the filesystem, not
the zmi portal_setup which is confusing).
I just wish the roundtrip worked better (or I knew how to use it). I
want to get it to export all the changes I've made from teh base plone
say and have the result be able to be dumped into my filesystem profile
without edit. At the moment portal_setup export gives me all teh base
config from plone defaults.
Thinking about it a little more, one reason I like genericsetup profiles
is that the filenames make it obvious what its purpose is (on the whole)
and easy to find. Lots of our python code has no useful names at all and
many have the same name e.g. browser.py which make it even harder.
Having a view name, module name, class name, interface name all
different makes things hard to understand.
I haven't learnt grok or rails yet but am I right in saying they make
better use of the filesystem name similar to what jbot does? ie a
filename is part of the code.
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