I'd like to be happy for Zope3 (and no, I think it's relatively quite small). But here's what I see: No online documentation. What docs there are are just scribbed with "TODO". A grand total of a half-dozen packages, the latest being updated in 2004. The Postgresql DA didn't even work with the current version, and still doesn't work with psycopg2.
I'm sure there's great things that could be done with Zope3. They seem to be doing an excellent job at hiding any evidence that anything is being done or can be done with it.
Chuck, there is a lot of online docs within Zope3 under the /++apidoc++ namespace. And there are two books in existence about Zope3. Zope3 could still use a lot of tutorials though.
And I've been using PostgreSQL with Zope3 for over a year now, with the psycopg2 adapter. Admittedly Zope3 _strongly_ focuses on the ZODB and provides little assistance in translating the object model into SQL tables/records, but certainly SQLMethods work.
The one item you're spot on about is that there is no significant/current set of add-ons for Zope3 the way there was for Zope2. I'm not sure why that is though.
Nice to hear. I'm a big fan of Postgresql+zope2 and glad to hear that you go for sqlmethods instead of some forced-in solution of pretending that SQL is like OO but with different syntax.
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I'd like to be happy for Zope3 (and no, I think it's relatively quite small). But here's what I see: No online documentation. What docs there are are just scribbed with "TODO". A grand total of a half-dozen packages, the latest being updated in 2004. The Postgresql DA didn't even work with the current version, and still doesn't work with psycopg2.
I'm sure there's great things that could be done with Zope3. They seem to be doing an excellent job at hiding any evidence that anything is being done or can be done with it.
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Chuck, there is a lot of online docs within Zope3 under the /++apidoc++ namespace. And there are two books in existence about Zope3. Zope3 could still use a lot of tutorials though.
And I've been using PostgreSQL with Zope3 for over a year now, with the psycopg2 adapter. Admittedly Zope3 _strongly_ focuses on the ZODB and provides little assistance in translating the object model into SQL tables/records, but certainly SQLMethods work.
The one item you're spot on about is that there is no significant/current set of add-ons for Zope3 the way there was for Zope2. I'm not sure why that is though.
Nice to hear. I'm a big fan of Postgresql+zope2 and glad to hear that you go for sqlmethods instead of some forced-in solution of pretending that SQL is like OO but with different syntax.