The CMF is the Content Management Framework, an important additional piece of infrastructure for Zope which has also influenced the design of Zope 3. CMF is required by Plone and Nuxeo CPS, also ERP5 uses it (see their prerequisites list); you can also use it by itself.
One of the core concepts of CMF is to separate logic (usually implemented as CMFTools), content (usually implemented as ContentTypes), and presentation (usually implemented in the PortalSkins? tool). So we can have a clean avoidance of SeparateContentAndCode.
CMF is made up of several ZopeProducts: CMFCore and CMFDefault, plus DCWorkflow, CMFCalendar? and CMFTopic?. These, in turn, provide various ContentTypes and CMFTools.
cmf.zope.org has been shut down in august 2004. product download and documentation is located now at zope.org website.
- http://zope.org/Products/CMF -- product download
- http://zope.org/Products/CMF/docs -- CMF documentation
- http://zope.org/Products/CMF/docs/requirements/use_cases -- CMF use cases
- CMF source code in SVN -- Your weapons, you will not need them.
Versions:
- Historical: CMF 1.0 Released March 2001
- Current Stable Version: CMF 2.0.0 April 2006
svn url -- Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:11:07 -0800 reply
You need this because (I'm guessing) svn.zope.org disallows checkouts over http:
svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/CMF/trunk CMF
See also http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Subversion/ReadOnlyAccess