[Grok-dev] megrok.five: grok on Zope 2

[Lennart Regebro]

On 2/8/07, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I played around tonight a bit with grok on Zope 2. The result is checked
> into svn.zope.org, called megrok.five. That is actually a (Zope 2)
> buildout, so anybody familiar with a regular grok checkout should be
> able to get started immediately (call bootstrap/bootstrap.py, then
> bin/buildout and then get a coffee, start the instance with bin/instance
> fg).
>
> So, what works?
>
> * adapters, utilities, etc. should work out of the box since they're no
> different in Zope 2 (I haven't tested them explicitly because they're
> boring :)).
>
> * views. I've provided a custom view grokker that mixes
> Acquisition.Explicit into the view classes, just like Five does. Well,
> to be honest, I find megrok.five a bit more elegant than that ZCML mess
> Five is doing :).
>
> * The most surprising thing to me was that Page Templates, with the Zope
> 3 Page Template engine (!), worked w/o any special code. Also, formlib
> works. That's pretty amazing.
>
> So I ported my simple todo application that I've written for the Snow
> sprint tutorial to Zope 2. The only thing I had to change were a few
> Zope 2 specific idioms, like containers vs. object managers, the need
> for ids, etc. The only thing that doesn't work reliably yet is URL
> computation, but I think we can solve that as well.
>
> Boy, I'm exicited. And tired :).

Ooh, very nice!

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