Danny William Adair wrote: [snip] > Have you seen this interview? > http://www.zopera.org/site/Members/odeckmyn/iv_paul_2001 (recently > announced on this list) > > Quote: "Regarding CMF, we expect it to disappear in its current > form, ..." > > Introduced to us as the "Portal Toolkit", later labeled as "probably > evolving into a commercial product" (couldn't find it in the > archives when I tried a minute ago, but I know I wasn't dreaming > when I read it), then renamed to "Content Management Framework" and > the out-of-the-box solution for site developers that need > membership, skinning, an easy content management interface, and > pluggable add-ons, Paul Everitt now calls it "a big prototype for > the new architecture". Although I think that this is not how it all > started, not even how it meant to be less than a year ago, you see > that your concerns are no longer something to worry about. The > "good things" will be taken to the Zope core, the rest will remain > interesting only for people who actually "implement".
Yikes! I need to get a clarification back to Olivier regarding my point on all this. First, the PTK/CMF evolved separately from Zope, which made it move pretty quickly. All along with thought in terms of the PTK/CMF trying out things that the more conservative Zope development wasn't going after. As we started thinking about Zope3 and a component architecture, we took a look at some of the ideas in the CMF and felt they were a valid approach. As such, the CMF could be thought of as a shipping prototype for ideas that will make it into Zope3. It's true that much of the CMF code should disappear if Zope3 does its job. Perhaps around 50% of the Python code, for instance. The remainder is in areas that we had mixed success on anyway -- namely, the CMFDemo portal doesn't really try to be an out-of-the-box finished product. Most of us would be thrilled to see a different "killer app" develop that took the place of this in Zope3. Certainly existing CMF users shouldn't be worried. For instance, we're planning two important customer engagements that are _just_ starting which will be CMF based. We want to work with people doing projects similar to the CMF and get some common ideas/machinery into the component architecture. Regarding the PTK possibly becoming a commercial product...well, some evolutionary paths are dead ends. :^) --Paul _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )