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I tried to create a web service using Zope in 2002 or so. I struggled for weeks trying to figure out how to get anything done, never did produce anything useful
by macintux 6y ago
I tried to create a web service using Zope in 2002 or so. I struggled for weeks trying to figure out how to get anything done, never did produce anything useful.
Not sure that says more about Zope or my bootstrapping skills, which are admittedly pretty poor.
- dagw 6y agoYea, Zope was weird. I learnt python in around 2000 and immediately fell in love with the language. Then I needed to to do some web stuff and wanted to move beyond simple cgi scripts and for some reason decided to pick up Zope. Almost stopped using Python all together then and there.
- smoe 6y agoI never worked with pure Zope, my first job in the mid 2000 was using Plone, a CMS build on top of it. Certainly overkill for simple websites, but I found it much more enjoyable than other big CMS of the time. It had some cool things, that I started missing once I moved on. How well the permission system, workflow engine and hierarchical content structure worked together, undo functionality, accessing things via urls like “/path/to/object/method” instead uf unreadable params, component based UI, having a single configuration file (zc.buildout) to have a reproducible environment for development and production, etc. In many regards they were ahead of the time I think, at least in the space of things between simple script driven websites and very enterprisey solutions.