[Zope-dev] Re: [Plone-developers] Re: Five and 2.9

[Jim Fulton]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> alan runyan wrote:
> 
>>>> Alan, does that address your concerns?
>>>
>>>
>>> Just understand that the Five approach is still being developed, so
>>> there's nothing to "adopt" yet. :)  But I certainly encourage folks to
>>> participate and help Martijn figure out what the approach should be.
>>
>>
>>
>> Raphael, I think its great that Jim responded. Now we (collectively)
>> need to get some usage out of Five.
>>
>> Jim, Thanks for explaining ZC's position re: FrankenZope or backporting
>> CA into Zope2.  One of the big questions that I believe is open is how to
>> use more of zope.app in Zope 2 - specifically Schema/Widgets.  I heard
>> that Zope Corp. is using this in some projects.
> 
> 
> Note that FrankenZope is going to go for the new way of Interface 
> integration last I heard (Five's way); the FrankenZope style setup to 
> make interfaces work is not needed anymore since the changes to 
> zope.interface that I did. This new approach works in straight 2.7.
> 
> I also heard rumors that FrankenZope's use of schema/widgets is actually 
> an evolved branch of an earlier version of Zope 3. Five's mission is to 
> integrate Zope 3 into Zope 2 as much a possible without having to change 
> either. Of course this is not always possible, but it's an important 
> goal. That said, I'm sure we could learn more from FrankenZope's 
> experiences in that area if someone would to speak up about this.

Can we please stop using this name in writing?  It is funny, but not very
reassuring to outsiders. :)

Jim


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