[Zope-CMF] Re: RFC: backporting including python-package-product support to support Zope 2.8

[Martin Aspeli]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:43:40 -0000, Rob Miller <ra at burningman.com> wrote:

> Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> The broader point is we wouldn't really need it yet - we don't have  
>> any  code that actually uses these new features, and plenty of code  
>> that may be  broken by changes in CMF 2. All in good time - of course,  
>> if you want to  help work on CMF 2.0 compatability for the 2.5 branch  
>> when it starts  stabilising, all the more chance we can get it into  
>> Plone 3.0 :)
>
> i have every intent of pushing for Plone 3.0 to require CMF 2.X (for  
> some reasonable value of X).

And I have every intention of supporting you :-)

You kick ass, Rob.

>  in fact, my first efforts towards GenericSetup and Plone integration  
> were based on running Plone against the CMF trunk.  it was then  
> (correctly, IMO) decided that CMF 2.0 would cause too much breakage to  
> 3rd party Plone products, when the last major release of Plone had  
> already required most products to be rewritten.
>
> one of the biggest motivators for creating CMF 1.6 and using it for the  
> basis of Plone 2.5 was so that it would be easier to do parallel Plone  
> development against CMF 2.0 without having to maintain separately two  
> entirely different site creation infrastructures.

Indeed - and thank you so much for all the hard work you've put into this!

Martin


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