[z3-five] formlib yes or no

[Rocky Burt]

On Thu, 2006-07-12 at 18:49 +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> 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.

Just curious, how was that choice a mistake in the context of Zope2 ?

- Rocky

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