[Zope-dev] Re: Zope and zope
yuppie
y.2004_ at wcm-solutions.de
Wed Apr 14 12:27:03 EDT 2004
Jim Fulton wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
> > I think the breakage, although literally "incalculable" (as is
>
>> every change to Zope 2, given that it has no canonical API), would be
>> manageable given enough lead time. In fact, if we did change the module
>> name, we could just leave a "bruce" package in place that, when imported,
>> raised a "ObsoleteError" with a descriptive message.
>
>
> But I think that this is a big problem. Backward compatibility for Z2 *is*
> important. It's too bad that lots of test files have to import Zope. Sigh.
Why is that a *big* problem?
- It's not nice to break tests, but that doesn't necessarily mean the
products are broken.
- AFAICT many products need some polishing and a new release for Zope
2.8 anyway.
Cheers, Yuppie
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