On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 15:38, Alex Clark <acl...@aclark.net> wrote: >> 2. Then you get ZCA a component architecture for Python. It has >> nothing to do with Web whatsoever. > > E.g. zope.component and one or two others?
Yup. >> 3. Then we have ZTK. A toolkit for building web frameworks. > > This is where you lose me. What's an example of a ZTK package? I can't > think of one off the top of my head… ah ok, I just found this: > > - http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/releases/packages-trunk.html > > So ZTK is ZCA plus the bits that make it suitable for building > web frameworks. And is it fair to say I can just build any web > app with the ZTK? I don't need any of the frameworks that are > already built, I'm free to reinvent the wheel if I choose too. Sure. Or for example, use it together with Pylons, or Bobo, or for that matter BFG. >> 4. On top of that we have Zope 2, BlueBream and Grok. > > I.e. The Frameworks™ Yup. >> 5. There is also BFG, which doesn't include/build on the ZTK (as the others >> do). > > Right, it's "loosely coupled" with the ZCA, but you can throw that out too, > if you like? Chris has to answer that. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
