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

[Chris Withers]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> ... and I'm one of those developers. I care, for the moment, about one  
> thing: Plone. I want Plone to move to use more Zope 3 technology, sure,  
> because it's clearly superior. But we're not going to re-write it from  
> scratch, and neither, I suspect, will most large Z2 applications. 

That I don't know about. Plone probably should, for a number of reasons, 
but I guess it's quite a hard problem to tackle...

> So my  
> path to Z3 is through Z2, by way of Five. Frankly, without that 
> migration  path, Z3 is nice and pretty and architecturally very cool and 
> totally  irrelevant to me. 

Indeed, but why does that mean people in Z3-land who feel the same way 
as you about Z2 and Plone should have to put up with looking after all 
of Z2? ;)

cheers,

Chris

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