Hi all, I was recently reading the article http://www.arielpartners.com/arielpartners/content/public/home/public/topics/technology/technologyR eviews/zopeVsCocoon in which the following quote caught my attention:
"There is an amazingly large set of Zope plugins available at Zope.org -- 655 at last count. Third party integrations/extensions are starting to appear for Cocoon, but they are still largely experimental. This difference is not due merely to issues such as a lack of developer "critical mass" or project size. The Zope community has leveraged Zope's ability to administer and add website content through the web to make it easy for community members to add and maintain documentation and download areas for their own extension products. Cocoon does not yet have an official channel setup for maintaining and distributing add-ons, which means the only ones that are generally available are those that are officially part of the Cocoon project. Since most community members do not have write access to the project archives, this severely limits growth in this area. It is interesting to note that the Zope web site does not actually host any of the development projects for the third-party add-ons, it merely acts as a catalog or clearing house for them." The above was written Nov. 2002; some of it is doubtless out of date. Nevertheless, as I search for a centralized list of third-party Cocoon add-ons, I come up empty. All I found was an item on the Cocoon wiki wishlist (http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Wishlist) wishing for one. I added a comment seconding the motion. It would be great to have a centralized place where third-party add-ons are listed; it could be searchable by keyword and category; the status of each project and a link to its homepage could be presented there. This could include official Cocoon components as well as third-party, experimental ones: the idea is to have a "one-stop shop" for the components you need. There could be short descriptions, links to documentation, compatibility notes, and even reviews and ratings ("don't use this component!"). My thought was to just add a wiki page, "ComponentsList", and encourage people to add pointers to their own projects to this page. Of course that would only be a beginning... we'd ideally want a formal database of projects, like on SourceForge or http://zope.org/Products/all_products, which someone would have to host and maintain. Maybe someone would need to write a Cocoon application to manage the list. However, to get this catalog off the ground, maybe the best start is just an easy wiki page. The result would be that it would be easier for Cocoon users to find out about the custom components that are available. This would mean less reinventing of the wheel, and more collaboration on common needs. And less ammo for those who would say Zope is better than Cocoon. :-) Any thoughts? Has this been done or started anywhere, and I missed it? Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
