[z3-five] formlib yes or no

[Lennart Regebro]

On 12/7/06, Dennis Schulz <d.schulz81 at gmx.net> wrote:
> I am currently in a decision making process to build an application.
> (actually already over it)
> In the last weeks and even months I made experiences with formlib and I
> am questioning if it makes sense to carry on with formlib or design
> everything from the ground up manually in own page templates.
> The most scary thing is that there is very few documentation and almost
> no examples of bigger applications using it.
> Is anybody else using formlib/ widgets/ objectwidgets?
> This is my first bigger application in which I try to use it, but I am
> getting into more and more issues and thinking of swiching to handmade
> forms again.
> Maybe when it gets too special and there has to be customized to much in
> comparision to the autogenerated form it is not worth dealing with all
> the problems you get.

I haven't used formlib, but I have used the schema forms extensively,
and I have to admit that that choice was a mistake in the context of
Zope2. Formlib is better, though, but I don't know how much.

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