[Zope-dev] Future of ZClasses

[Andreas Jung]

--On 27. September 2006 12:42:23 -0400 Jonathan <dev101 at magma.ca> wrote:

> I found a thread (from March 2006) discussing the future of zclasses, but
> i could not determine if a 'final' decision had been made.
>
> According to Changes.txt for Zope 2.10.0:
>
> "ZClasses are deprecated and should no longer be used. In addition any
> code related to the ZClasses (re)distribution mechanism is removed."
>

Right. And nobody stepped in to work on an alternative solution. Another 
indication that the core developers don't care much about ZClasses.

> Does this mean that any application which incorporates zclasses will
> break if upgraded to zope 2.10.x?

Likely.

>
> The reason i ask is that i have a huge legacy system (zope 2.6) that is
> about to be upgraded to a more current version of zope, and i am
> wondering if this is the time to replace the zclass utilization (a
> seriously non-trivial task!).
>

It's definitely time to work on a replacement.

-aj

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