[Zope-CMF] CMF 1.4 Roadmap

[Jeffrey P Shell]

I have one, but it's in such bad shape.  Well, it's in good enough 
shape (it works), but it's led me to a major act of vaporware by 
promising a CMF focused release and I've just had no time.  I was 
hoping for a contract that would require it enough for me to clean it 
up, but that didn't come through.

It's too intertwined with a customer project (sigh) to be released even 
as a proof.  And I'm not too sure how some would like it - some people 
prefer compound documents to be folderish.  I went a different route 
and went towards an OpenDoc inspired model of Documents (the abstract 
shell) containing Parts/PartContainers.  It's an approach that works 
decently with through-the-web complex document editing, but not 
terribly well with FTP or other means.  Basically - I'm not sure if my 
solution is generic enough for inclusion with the CMF (and it builds on 
its own complex framework that would need cleaning).

I'll note that the design I went with differs heavily from the design 
proposed in the compound proposal I wrote up on cmf.zope.org many a 
year ago.  It does not involve templates, but tries better to 
accommodate free-form addition of parts (I think CMFArticle tries to do 
this).

Perhaps I'll be able to share more when I get back, if time permits.

Or, if anyone's going to be at LinuxExpo NY, look for me at the Zope 
booth this week, and I'll be willing to talk about it.

On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 03:00  PM, Paul Winkler wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:40:20PM -0700, Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
>> Instead of focusing on Composite/Compound Content, could we instead
>> focus on pluggable text handlers?
>
> Drat, I need a better composite/compound doc. :(
> My hopes were flared by Andy's announcement ... I guess
> that Compound does not really exist yet? Oh well.
>
> Note: I'm currently using CMFArticle and absolutely
> none of my content admins are happy with it -
> it's too different from editing Documents,
> and it's very confusing to have a meaningless
> Folder Contents link for an article.
>
> -- 
>
> Paul Winkler
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