Hi. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:24 PM, William Heymann <kosh@aesaeion.com> wrote:
On Tuesday 04 January 2011, yuppie wrote:
Zope trunk (2.14) no longer ships with these Products:
Products.BTreeFolder2 Products.ExternalMethod Products.MailHost Products.MIMETools Products.PythonScripts Products.StandardCacheManagers
What will this mean for those of us that don't use plone and use all of the above products? Will these products continue to be maintained in some way or are they being abandoned?
It depends on what you understand under the term maintenance. With the exception of MailHost (which got a zope.sendmail based refactoring) none of these products have seen any non-cosmetic changes in the past five years. So if you are looking for ongoing development and improvements, you were in the wrong place for a while now. If you are looking for stable and non-changing code, you'll get that. All of these products work with the last Python 2 version (2.7) so there should be some years ahead in which they'll work unchanged. I wouldn't expect any of them to be ported to Python 3 anymore, though. But in the end that is up to the users of these products - there's just no magic community around anymore that will work on them for you. But that's been true for Zope 2 at large for some years now. Hanno