Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

If you check PyPI recent update any time, you can see at least one package update from Zope community. Zope 3 itself has more than 140 eggs . Zope 2 also started using eggs, I think Zope 2 itself is going be fully eggified soon after 2.11 release. It would be interesting to read Pradeep's post to BangPypers list along with this. He says: "The kind of functionality available in Zope and plone especially when it comes to fine grained authentication, content metadata, internationalisation support, are yet to be seen on other python framework. However, the choice is simpler now, because Zope is pushing for a ``Python Ecosystem'' rather than a single do-it-all framework . Once again they lead the way."

Last Monday I posted about an article I am writing about Zope component architecture . This weekend I added a reference chapter. Now it has total 76 pages, now it is more than the size of an article, so I would like to call it as a book :) (I don't know the criteria for a book, may be I am wrong) You can read the book here . I didn't got any feedback for this work yet from Python/Zope/Plone community :( . Though, I didn't lost my hope. I hope this time I will get some feedback :) Update: I have added an HTML version of book (Thanks to Anonymous commenter). Also I have uploaded the reST source .

Few months back, I started writing an article about Zope component architecture. But I couldn't finish it at that time. My friend Brad (thanks Brad!) reviewed the initial draft at that time. Even now I didn't completed it as I wished, though, last weekend I did some polish works. The last chapter is just a copy paste with some minor changes from README.txt in source code of zope.component package. Anyway, here is what I wrote so far . I am planning to look into this article after some time (may be weeks/months). If you have any comments/questions, please add it as a comment here .

Zope 3 developers list is going back to where it is started. The first mail to zope3-dev list was from Jim Fulton in 2001 and he closed the list with a final thread . There was average 146 KB (gziped version) mail per month for last 6 years and 500+ subscribers in zope3-dev list. Recently Zope 3 has been "exploded" into individual projects . The discussions about development of these projects will continue in zope-dev list (The 'zope-dev' list is almost 9 years old now). This is a good move, because Zope 3 is no more a single project. Zope itself had more projects from the beginning. But projects like Zope 2 (Original Zope application + application server and/or framework), ZODB (object database), CMF (content management framework) etc. was more coarse grained. Then Zope3 also started like this, but it consisted many re-usable packages. With the arrival Python eggs, it become easy to manage small packages. Buildout pushed this trend further. At last, this le...