[z3-five] Re: Zope 2.8 & Five - where to begin?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

David Pratt wrote:
> I just installed Zope 2.8 and I am eager to begin using Five.  More 
> importantly, I would like recommendation on which parts of my Zope 2 
> products I ought to be attempting to modify first to bring them into the 
> Zope 3 way. I am interested in schemas and internalization as first 
> priorities in my projects so hoping there is something I can start with 
> in this regard. Is there anything more I need other than Zope 2.8 to 
> begin with this? Five is embedded - correct?

Five 1.0.x and Zope X3.0 are part of Zope 2.8, that is correct. However, 
Five 1.1 is the version providing support for Zope3-style i18n. You can 
download Five 1.1 beta (the final will be out in the coming weeks) and 
install it into the 'Products' directory of your Zope instance; an 
instance installation of Five will override the Five shipping with Zope 2.8.

As for your first steps, I recommend you make yourself familiar with 
Zope 3 first; the concepts are pretty important in order to understand 
how Five works. There are two books on Zope 3 out there.

As for Five-specific documentation, there isn't much out there, 
unfortunately. I can only recommend reading Five/doc/manual.txt and 
Five/doc/i18n.txt for the i18n features. Five/doc/directives.txt gives 
an overview over the ZCML directives supported by Five. You can also 
look at some example code written with Five, for example a small 
presentation tool called Sfive (http://codespeak.net/svn/z3/Sfive/trunk).

Best regards,

Philipp