[Zope-CMF] Re: Stable Framework

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Fri, 06 Jul 2001 16:09:39 +0100


Excellent :-)

Just the sort of response I was hoping for...

thanks,

Chris

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> On Friday 06 July 2001 09:25, Chris Withers wrote:
> > (negative hat response ;-)
> >
> > seb bacon wrote:
> > > Non-incremental changes can be so
> > > destabilising to 3rd party development efforts,
> >
> > I'll say! I've got two major products I want to base on the CMF and by
> > the sounds of it, they'll both need to be completely re-written when
> > this happens
> 
> I stated my hope (at the bottom) that migration won't be too difficult.
> I (we) take migration issues very seriously!  Considering that the
> zope-cmf list has exploded with activity, it would be a terrible mistake
> to break compatibility now.  By releasing version 1.0, we made an
> implicit (as well as explicit) promise to retain compatibility.
> 
> > ...and, what the overall timescales we should be expecting for these
> > things?
> 
> That is yet to be determined.  This is not a project yet, nor even a
> proposal, just an informal RFC.
> 
> > Do you (DC) have any customized or alternate tool implementations? If
> > so, how hard to you see it being to migrate them?
> 
> The tools will be a piece of cake to migrate IMHO; they just have to be
> called "services" instead of tools and have to be found a different way.
> The presentation layer will have more fundamental changes but I believe
> we can write a script that will migrate your customizations.
> 
> Shane