[Zope-dev] Plone/Metadata/FUD

[Steve Alexander]

>  My only response is why wasn't " Many of the components and frameworks 
> currently supplied by the CMF" included in the core Zope in the first 
> place?  Everybody has the right to work on their own thing sure.  We 
> would already have a highly extensible Zope3 by now if the time wasn't 
> spent trying to create something else that should have been in the core 
> of Zope in the first place.

If only people could write the ideal software first time!

 From my point of view as a Zope 3 contributor, I'm extremely glad that 
the patterns, use-cases and learning experiences were developed in the 
CMF, outside of the core of Zope.

If what is going into Zope 3 had been worked into the core of Zope 2 
instead of being tried out in the CMF, the speed of development would 
have been an order of magnitude slower, and there would have been a much 
greater risk of increasing the number of deprecated APIs in the Zope 2 core.

So, bravo to the CMF developers and contributors. Not only do we have a 
useful and innovative framework today, we have the blueprints for a 
better Zope tomorrow.

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Steve Alexander