OK, some initial, fuzzy comments: On 2/27/06, Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com> wrote:
In this vision, Zope 3 would have to become a lot more like Zope 2, or we would lose features.
You are thinking about things like TTW development and such? Because I see that as add-on products of different kinds. Like cpsskins to develop the look, and some sort of persistent schemas combined with some sort of aspect-oriented classes. ;-) If there is some sort of real "core" thingy that you lose going from Zope2 to Zope3 I must have missed it. :-p
2) In an alternate vision, Zope 2 evolves to Zope 5.
- Zope 5 will be the application server generally known as Zope. It will be backward compatible (to the same degree that Zope 2 releases are currently backward compatible with previous Zope 2 releases) with Zope 2. Zope 5 will similarly be backward compatible with Zope 3 applications built on top of the current Zope 3 application server.
Note that Zope 5 will leverage Zope 3 technologies to allow a variety of configurations, including a Zope 2-like configuration with implicit acquisition and through-the-web development, and a Zope 3-like configuration that looks a lot like the current Zope 3 application server. Maybe, there will be a configuration that allows Zope 2 and Zope 3 applications to be combined to a significant degree.
This overwhelms my complexity sensor. :-) I like the vision of Zope2 becoming a set of extra packages you install for Zope3, to get backwards compatibility. Maybe this is the same as what you call Zope 5, maybe not.
- There wouldn't be confusion about 2 Zopes.
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