[z3-five] future z3 development for plone / resourcelibrary alternatives

[Kapil Thangavelu]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:18:36 -0500, Dennis Schulz <d.schulz81 at gmx.net>  
wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I started to build a webapplication with Plone 2.5.1, Zope 2.9.5, Five
> 1.4.2 using zope 3 elements such as formlib and zc.table.
>
> One of the big problems I stumbled into is that a lot of zope 3
> components and widgets such as datetimewidget depend on
> zc.resourcelibrary which can't be used in the newest available plone
> version 2.5.1, so the generated forms by formlib are very basic, usually
> mainly text fields..........
> I found a component called "cpsresourcelibrary" which is said to run
> under zope 2 but I couldn't get it to run in accordance with the widgets
> until now.
>
> Any suggestions for a replacement of zc.resourcelibrary in 2.5 Plone
> development?
>
> I read on the Plone.org that Plone 3 will be released in March and will
> include Zope 3.3 completly.
> So I was thinking of developing the application in zope 3 completly. But
> this would only make sense if it is more or less sure, that the
> application will run on Plone 3 without any bigger problems.
>
> The probably easier way to get it on Plone right now would be to forget
> about formlib generation, make the forms myself still using the zope 3
> views, adapters and permissions etc........
>

you could just define a custom z3 datetime widget, utilizing the extant z3  
one as a reference and utilize more in line javascript, or load up the  
file explictly. afaik there isn't a replacement for the  
zc.resourcelibrary, though you might want to bring that up on the five dev  
list as a feature for the future.

-kapil