[bndfc-web-tech] Fwd: [chris at webarchitects.co.uk: How about using Plone rather than MKDoc for bndfc.co.uk?]

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

>Things that Plone has that MKDoc doesn't have.
>
>   1. A big community of developers.
>
Actually MKDoc 1.6 has quite a few bits which are open-sourced, MKDoc 
1.8 will have even more.

>   2. A more developed workflow system.
>
We can do this with directory structured and an advanced permissions 
system. That's part of the plan but it's not there yet.

>   3. An events component.
>
It's nice that Plone has that out of the box.

>   4. Archetypes a framework for the development of new Content
>Types in Zope/CMF/Plone. Schema driven automatic form generation,
>simple integration with rich content types, and a lower entry bar to
>the complex requirements Zope places on new content objects.
>
Sounds like a lot of buzz to me. The Archetypes syntax actually looks 
like programming, in this respect Plone is no different from MKDoc: if 
you need more metadata fields, you need to code them.

>   5. A FormMail type thing for forms.
>
We've got a minimalistic module which does this.

>   6. TAL i18n suppoort via .po file and translations into a large
>number of languages .
>
We've just received bits of money to do this. I'm planning to get this 
done early september.

>   7. WebDAV and FTP support for uploading content.
>
Yep.

>   8. WYSIWYG editor, Epoz
>
We've got a WYSIWYG editor now with the upcoming MKDoc 1.8.
We can backport it to MKDoc 1.6 _very easily_ (that's a day of work or 
so) if it's required.