[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] RFC: Reunite Zope 2 and Zope 3 in the source code repository

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 24 November 2005 09:17, Jim Fulton wrote:
> Now (well, after the December release :), I think it's time to revisit
> what the core of Zope 3 is and how we manage the repository.  There has
> been a trend to manage important components separately and link them in.  I
> see this trend continuing.  The advent of eggs and continuing maturation of
> zpkg and testing technology will accelerate this trend, IMO.
>
> I think that in the future, there may be a much smaller core Zope 3 project
> that represents the "object filing system" (zope.ofs? :). This core project
> may be a client of a collection of much smaller projects, such as
> zope.interface, zope.component. etc..  If that vision comes to pass, Zope 2
> will no longer contain the Zope 3 core, but they will both share a large
> number of components which neither of them "contain". Obviously,  this
> would radically change the nature of this debate.

I was counting on you making exactly this suggestion. :-) I agree with all of 
that.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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