Focusing in

Blogging seems so self-centered. But, I've been ordered to, so I will. I'll try to focus on things that maybe could possibly be thought of as eventually have  some interest for others.

The last months have for me been a matter of focusing more on Five, which is a product that enables you to use the Zope 3 component architecture under Zope  2. Hence the name Five. Five is still in an early stage, but is used by some people. The last release 0.2b, is useful for writing applictaions as long as they are independent of other Zope frameworks, even if it is lacking a lot of the nicer features of Zope 3, such as schemas and auto-generated forms.

Of course, most people interested in Five have legacy Zope 2 products and frameworks, or they would go directly on Zope 3. That means that for most people Five in it's current state is pretty much useless. However, we are working on that. I have the last two months been extending Five with forms, and trying out various ways of making it possible to integrate Five products with CMF, and of course CPS.

Soon to be announced is a Five sprint here in Paris, it looks like it's gonna be the 14th to 16th March 2005. The result of that will hopefully be the finishing touches to this CMF integration, and a new release of Five that will be useful for current Zope 2 users.