[Zope-dev] IMO ZClasses should stay

[Jim Fulton]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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> On 24 Mar 2006, at 16:25, Jim Fulton wrote:
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>> On the subject of deprecation, for the record, I think removing
>> ZClasses is a mistake.  They have legitimate uses.  They have major
>> flaws too.  It would help if we would more clearly document their
>> limitations and pitfalls, rather than get rid of them, at least
>> until we have something better,
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> I think you are completely right, but I don't think there is anyone  who 
> wants to do this documentation task (let alone fix ZClasses)  because of 
> the high level of disdain among those people who are  actively 
> contributing and have enough knowledge to do it.

That's a shame.  I don't think that this is a hard task, especially
if the person who does it realizes that there is a subset of ZClasses
that is useful and not that complicated.  Everything else (e.g.
"product" generation) should be avoided.

Jim

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