[Zope-dev] IMO ZClasses should stay

[Jim Fulton]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 24. März 2006 11:25:53 -0500 Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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,
>>
> 
> To relax this discussion a bit: the original plan was to deprecate ZClasses
> to tell that developer that it is using a somewhat unsupport ancient 
> method to develop with Zope. There was no plan to remove ZClasses after 
> two major releases as usually but to have an option to kick same at some 
> point when they should raise major problems

Cool.


 > (I know you had some work to
> get ZClasses
> working again in Zope 2.8)...well, the point is that there is too much 
> scary code around in Zope 2 where only possibly only one person knows 
> about the deepest internals.

That's not unique to Zope 2, or even Zope. :/

Jim

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