Ian Bicking wrote: [snip]
FWIW, I strongly suggested to Adrian that he call his project a CMS, not a web framework. Sure, it is also a web framework, but who cares about another one of those? It's interesting because it's a CMS, and it fills a niche that isn't well filled right now.
Could you identify this niche a bit more clearly? There is one huge Python-based CMS called Plone (which in my experience enjoys much the same type of buzz as Ruby on Rails does), and there are others such as Silva (which I've helped build) and CPS. To my eyes this niche is very well filled. Is the difference that all these efforts are Zope based? Is the niche a non-Zope-based Python-based CMS?
Well, it's not my product to define -- it's not even released yet -- but I wouldn't define it as non-Zope. It's purely RBMS-backed, and all customization is done by a programmer. In focus maybe it's more like OpenACS (at least my vague idea of what OpenACS does). These are very different than the Zope CMSs, and I think it's valid niche. "CMS" is a vague concept, and there's room for a large number of differentiated products.
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