[Zope-dev] I agree that ZClasses should stay. I will volunteer

[Andreas Jung]

--On 24. März 2006 10:00:46 -0800 Christopher Lozinski 
<lozinski at freerecruiting.com> wrote:

> I am interested in maintaining them, documenting them, and upgrading them.

Cool. I think a good starting point would be to update

<http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/CustomZopeObjects.stx>
>
> I have been through the code a number of times, and if someone would
> spend 15 minutes explaining the high level design decisions, I could
> probably keep them up to date.  Why do they have multiple properties on a
> property sheet, instead of having a list of independent data types?
>

Ask Jim :-)

> I am also very interested in versions, and maintaining versions.

I think versions are history and have gone in Zope 2.8 or even Zope 2.7.

>
> Versionning and ZClasses make the fastest single user development
> environment I have ever seen in my life.  If your company can afford file
> based development, great, but some of us live on the income from our web
> sites, and really want to develop fast.

Fast is only one point of successful software development. How to you meet 
the goals extensibility &  maintenance with ZClasses or do you write only
write-once-throw-away apps?

>
> And I object to the statement that "most people with solid backgrounds".
> I would prefer if you said that:  "In certain circumstances ZClasses
> makes sense, in other circumstances, file based development makes better
> sense. In some cases Plone is better, in some cases Zope is better, in
> some cases Ruby on Rails is better, in some cases Zope3 is better".
> Different situations require different choices.
>

This brings us back to the old discussion where we want to go with Zope in 
the future and what our target audience for Zope should/will be. I have 
some clear thought on that but that's only one opinion among others.

Andreas
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