I have to agree with Chris on this one. While Zope X3 is nice for those sharping the blades (cutting edge) for most people wanting to get into Zope I would push them towards 2.7. Now, when Zope 3.0 comes along, or maybe 3.1 and all the backward compatibility is worked out it might be a different story. From what I can see, there is still 2.7.5 (beta 1 just release) probably a 2.7.6 and then 2.8b/a/rc - > 2.8 and a few more releases under that. All of that looks like at least a year of development in 2.X series. Jake ____________________ http://www.ZopeZone.com "Zoping for the rest of us" On Feb 24, 2005, at 5:06 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
Stephan Richter wrote:
this is a totally unfair statement! We are committed to backward-compatibility and I, as well as other others, have put great care and effort into ensuring backward-compatibility in the trunk. Jim actually told me offline that he was surprised how few hickups they had when I checked in my refacotrings recently.
I'm sure this is true from where you sit, but you're happy to use the bleeding edge all the time ;-) If you need to write "BBB code", then if someone who used the thing you wrote the BBB for will have to change their code to use the "proper" api at some point. That requires work. My point is that, for me, and most people looking for stability, Zope 3 is still changing too fast to go for as a solution. I think it's getting much better, but not quite there yet ;-) (see latest discussions about whether to rip out the pluggableauth stuff and bring something else back)
Some very nice software has been written for Zope 3 already and all of them have no problem keeping their code working using the latest SVN trunk.
I don't doubt it! I'm excited about tackling Zope 3 as a user some time soon...
Chris
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