Hi Kiran: > > Home grown solutions have a tendency to fall into disarray when the > makers lose interest. It may not seem so for the next couple of > years, but surely your application is intended to have a longer life. > > It is better to depend on frameworks where the promoters have a > commercial stake in keeping it going. Plone currently has a stable > ecosystem, largely based in Europe.
Yes, things like this were what swung me towards plone/zope.... > 100% auto-generated. For further customisation, the Archetypes > framework (which was built on top of Plone but has now become core) > is very nice. Beyond this, you'll rapidly approach the Zope wall. > Plone itself is in the middle of a transition to Zope 3, which is > nowhere like the current Zope 2, so the wall can be even more baffling. > I initally had some reservations on the the way archetypes work....but I couldnt find anything else (open source) which worked better and made sense. the 2.9 -> 3 transition is a concern...but there seems to be a migration path, at least in the roadmap. What do you mean by the Zope wall? > PHP programmers will need to stop thinking in PHP before they can > write good Python code. Same goes for C or Java programmers. The > nature of the language is different, so experienced programmers will > have to learn to think differently. Lisp programmers will find it > easier. > Overall, I'd go with Plone. Their team takes usability and > architecture very seriously, even if they lack somewhat on legacy > support (not entirely their fault). > Agreed...but, I am trying to explain that to people who havent really worked with technology other than as users! (one of the powers that be uses wordpress for an intranet blog....and believes anything can be done on it...) thanks Ashok
