[Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

[Chris McDonough]

+1 on all.

On Dec 20, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for next release we plan to replace several parts with the  
> corresponding components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is  
> working on a proposal on that issue. In addition I would like to  
> get rid of some old stuff that is no longer maintained and buggy:
>
>
> - ZopeTutorial (could be ripped off without implications and made  
> available
>   for download on zope.org)
>
> - HelpSys - from a programmers view pretty much useless and not very
>   helpful. I consider to replace it with something more useful (not  
> sure
>   we can re-use apidoc from Zope 3 in some way, perhaps the inclusion
>   of Dieter's Docfinder might be more useful for programmers)
>
> - Gadfly(DA) - do we really need this? We discussed this already.  
> In my
>   opinion the purpose of Gadfly is only educational but nothing  
> that one
>   really needs or uses for production. It could be removed and made
>   available for download on zope.org.
>
> And my favourite enemy in Zope: ZClasses :-) I would like to mark  
> them _clearly_ as an obsolete feature (DeprecationWarning, Warnings  
> in the ZMI and the Zope Book). I _don't_ propose to remove them at  
> some point but ppl should be aware that they are using one of the  
> most-scary components in Zope (please no further discussion about  
> the pros and cons of ZClasses..this discussion took already place  
> already a bunch of times on the list).
>
> -aj
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