Daniel Nouri wrote:
Martin Aspeli writes:
David Bain wrote:
Now that plone.app.z3cform is documented and reasonable usable should we
consider replacing formlib with z3cform?
I'd recommend plone.z3cform. A couple of people are using it in
production and it works very well. It's seen a lot of bug fixes and
real life use.
I'm about six months off recommending it everyone. :) I think it's
really good, and I use it personally for some things, but it's fair to
point out it's a bit cutting edge.
Depends. z3c.form is still cutting edge. Last week, Daniel refactored
and broke most existing forms. :-) I suspect we're a month or two off
a beta or rc quality Plone/z3c.form integration package that does
everything you want.
What's there is very stable. No reason to believe it's not "beta or rc
quality". What's missing is inline KSS edit; inline validation on the
other hand is there. And probably a couple of other things that we
never needed.
I'd also miss a few contributed widgets (like captcha and
UberSelectionWidget, lack-of-finished-UI-notwithstanding). I think it's
mainly documentation and amount of available examples that'd put me off
recommending it to someone who wanted to stay on the boring side of the
technology curve.
Whatever "properly supported" means. I've run across a lot of bugs in
the past working with Five's formlib integration. Like bugs with
internationalization (IE6 and non-ASCII form values...) and subforms
support.
Right. Formlib certainly has its quirks. But Plone depends on it, which
means that Plone needs it to at least work somewhat well. :-)
I guess you're referring to an exotic feature or two that the formlib
integration supports that plone.app.z3cform does not yet. I doubt that
you can say it's better documented (in or outside Plone), given the
excellent documentation that comes with z3c.form. The fact that almost
no Plone specific documentation is necessary for z3c.form is in fact an
advantage.
Please don't get me wrong - like I said, I love plone.z3cform and I
think z3c.form is a better library than formlib ever was. It's just fair
to point out that this is quite new in the Plone world.
Martin
--
Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book
_______________________________________________
Product-Developers mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
