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

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Wed Dec 21 13:11:00 EST 2005


Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
>>I'll raise the question again: what are the benefits of the HelpSys for
>>a Zope user?
> 
> 
> I can't recall clicking on top frame of the ZMI or a 'Help!' link in the
> past few years, either. Perhaps an equivalent or greater benefit would be
> to rip out locally installed static help facilities, and spend the effort
> migrating* zope.org to a plone version that could run PloneHelpCenter:
> 
> http://plone.org/documentation

FWIW, I think storing docs anywhere on the filesystem and in the product 
distribution is absolutely 100% evil.

You asking product authors to commit to a url being around forever, and 
that's unreasonable and foolish...

Chris

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