Zope (was Re: [oclug] Free/open-source replacements for MS FrontPage as an *editing* environment?)

[Dan York]

Chris,

> > above... at the time (and possibly still) editing files in Zope was not
> > for the novice.
> 
> Can you provide some further details as to your issues with zope and version 
> and products you installed at the time as this is an area where zope excels 
> in from my understanding and use of the product.

Well, I actually like Zope a lot and would use it if I could.  But last time
I worked with Zope (about 9 months ago), all the editing of the files was 
through their (web-based) user interface using their DTML markup language
along with standard HTML.  It was fine for me, but, I mean, I'm also the guy
doing all our (e-smith) documentation using vim and DocBook SGML!  

Now you *can* use editors that support WebDAV against a Zope server, which was 
fine for publishing HTML pages and such... but if you want to do things like
common headers and footers, you need to use Zope's DTML, and I wasn't able to
do this with the editors I was using.  Things have no doubt improved since
that time... but to use the features I needed I had to do all the file editing
via Zope's interface, which worked well for me, but not for other users.

> Now the one I have been struggling with for years is an MS Project 
> replacement.. After spending almost two years on putting bits and pieces 

Yes, that would indeed be a good one... and I haven't seen anything that
comes close, either.

Thanks,
Dan