[Zope-CMF] Re: Is unmodified CMF useless? Some Plone questions.

[Raphael Ritz]

Peter Shute (NUW) wrote:
> I've been playing with Zope and now CMF for a few days now.  I've been
> trying to see what they can do, and have come to the conclusion that without
> a lot of modifications the basic sites they create are fairly useless for
> anything.
> 
> Is that correct, or have I missed some basic features?
> 
> I've now installed Plone, and this is much more like what I was expecting,
> so here are some questions:
> 
> 1. I don't quite understand the relationship between CMF and Plone.  They're
> both Zope products, but is Plone dependent on CMF or the other way around?
> 

Plone is buildt on top of CMF and needs CMF (as CMF needs Zope and
Zope needs Python)

To get an idea about the level at which they interplay you might
benefit from browsing through my upcoming programming tutorial for
Plone availble at http://www.neuroinf.de/LabTools/MySite

HTH

	Raphael

PS to the gurus: If you think such a tutorial is helpful
to the community at large: I'm sure it would benefit from your
feedback - correcting mistakes; suggesting better examples and
exercises (including solutions) etc. Don't be afraid to use
the 'comment' option on the back-talk book ;-)

PPS: sorry, if access to the site might be slow. Our computing
facilities currently undergo a major re-buildt

> 2. Does this mailing list cover Plone as well as CMF, or is there a more
> appropriate one?  I couldn't see one on the Zope site.
> 
> 3. I installed the latest CMF, then uninstalled it before installing Plone,
> because I noticed that it came with CMF.  Am I now running an older version
> of CMF, and if so what happens if I upgrade it?
> 
> 4. How do you say Plone?  Does is sound like "clone", or is it PL-1?
> 
> 
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