Hi Nick,
Nick Davis wrote:
I agree that 2+ years should have produced maturity. Zope seems to be
a lot more stable than Plone.
Well, Zope has had about 10 years to stabilise, versus Plone's 2 ;-)
Maybe the reason people focus on your Plone talk is you touch a chord
with people who too are wrestling with Plone.
*grinz* I can but hope...
Probably at least once a week the thought crosses our minds of
ditching Plone and going back down to the Zope level, with some of our
own stuff sitting on top of CMF. But then, Plone does provide some good
things.
Yep, that's a point I made while giving that talk :-S
If only these things would work consistently and not keep
changing.
You REALLY want them to stay as bad as they were? ;-)
Also while performance problems have been addressed in 2.1
No they haven't...
there seem to still be migration problems and broken products which
prevent people going to 2.1 yet.
Yup.
My colleague has spent a long time
trying to migrate a Product he wrote, from Archetypes 1.2.5 to 1.3.4,
due to the fact he had to hack around problems with references.
Archetypes is the chief sinner in all of this, I'm afraid. It's trying
to solve a very difficult problem, and one which needs tackling with
structure and upfront and intuitive design rather than the organic
tacking on of new "bitz" whenever anyone felt like it that AT has
suffered through...
My fear is as more features are added, what you describe as a shaky
stack of complex fragile components will get ever more dependencies and
therefore ever more complex and fragile.
Yup.
People often talk about the steep learning curve of Zope and Plone.
When one is learning it, one tends to blame oneself for finding it
difficult, and its a bad workman blames his tools. After a while though
the question arises of why this seems to be harder to learn than say,
some mathematical concept commonly considered hard to get your head
around. The answer seems to be because its Plone's complexity and
inconsistencies we are learning. This is not good and doesn't bode well
for increasing mind share.
Indeed.
This is not actually any worse than the J2EE / Java / class explosion
world, but isn't one of the points of open source and collaboration that
it should be much much better?
Well, that's a different discussion, and one best had over much beer...
It is great that so many people are willing to contribute their own
free time, effort and resources, to write code that they freely share.
...but, and this may seem harsh, but that doesn't, in itself, mean
they're any good at writing quality software...
It seems to me your recommendation to people to not use Plone at all,
coming from someone who's been around in the Zope worldfor quite some
time, is quite controversial but may in a roundabout way help if it
forces people to make Plone more stable and mature.
Moi? Controlversial? i'd never do such a thing ;-)
*grinz*
Chris
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