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Is a list of current and deprecated products held in some central place? I don't monitor the release of new products religiously, so I'm using those products that are covered in (outdated?) documentation rather than continually checking to see if there's something newer & better around.
There's clearly a gap. This is an opportunity for someone. They don't call it open source for nuthin!
Agree completely, Mark! Unfortunately, this particular opportunity has the following characteristics: - it'll always be at least slightly out of date, meaning the maintainer will get hit with the metaphorical stick on a regular basis by ungrateful people (e.g. "Why are you recommending X? Don't you know Y is out? Don't you know ANYTHING?...") - in order to create such a list, you'd have to be across an enormously diverse group of products. I doubt whether any one person has that breadth of knowledge, save possibly someone working at zope.com fielding obscure support or technical questions day after day - to maintain the list, you'd have to have sufficient knowledge to not need to use it yourself. In other words, you'd be providing a service that you yourself wouldn't need to use. That's a BIG ask of just about anyone, unless they're getting paid to do it. Hopefully someone from zope.com will think "What a great idea!" and take it on as a skunkworks project. I can dream, can't I? Regards Dave M.