[Zope-dev] RE: Clarification re: Zope X3.1, 2.8

[Lennart Regebro]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> Yup, that makes sense.  Are these assumed to also be the folks who will
> try to make sure that new Z3 releases make it in to Z2 via Five?  I
> guess what I'm driving at is that I'd hate to eventually have a very old
> version of Z3 sitting inside of Zope 2 due to insufficient bandwidth on
> the part of those developers to keep up with Z3 releases.  

That will only be an issue when Zope3 has matured so much that new 
releases do not give people significant benefits to bother upgrading 
Zope2. ;)

>> But is there and available, so people can begin to plot 
>>their own migration paths based on their own situations.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong here but I get the sense that Five is
> less of a "migration path" from Z2 to Z3 than a way to integrate Z3
> technologies (like views and adapters) into Z2 right now.  Obviously
> allowing Z2 developers to use these things will give them a some needed
> familiarity with Z3 if they decide to switch but the migration path to
> "straight Z3" will always be more or less a rewrite, no?

Well, what you can do is write Zope2 products that can be easily 
migrated to zope 3. Is that a migration path? maybe not...