[geeks] Zope/Plone?

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Fri Dec 1 15:15:04 CST 2006


On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Fri, 01 Dec 2006 @ 11:58 -0500, Bryan Fullerton said:
>
>> On 12/1/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>>> NOTE: I'm not saying it will eat 19GB of virtual memory, as it has 
>>> been
>>> redesigned, made into a generic platform, etc, but it is still a 
>>> bloated
>>> system.
>>
>> Are there any commercially supported CMS systems that are not bloated?
>
> I don't know... but Digital Creations' software went far beyond bloat.
> If their Python code's bloat was a volume of space, it would have to be
> measured in parsecs.
>

They decided on a nice, object-oriented user permissions database, that 
could have one-off permissions, or inherited permissions, or a mix.

They wrapped that all up into their own OO database also done in Python.

Performance of that piece at least, was not very good.

--Patrick



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