[Zope-dev] Re: Interest in "AdvancedQuery" and/or "ManagableIndex"?

[Martin Aspeli]

yuppie wrote:

> - Should we add new products to the core? I thought we want to move away 
> from products and use python packages instead. The AdvancedQuery code 
> might become part of the ZCatalog package, ManagableIndex might be 
> converted to a non-products package.

There are hardly "new", though, they've been around for ages and have 
enthusiastic users. Those users always found it hard to convince people 
to adopt them more widely because they were not in the standard 
repositories and a bit "scary" - I think any chance to resolve that 
should be taken. I'm quite bad for reshuffling code just for the sake of 
aesthetics, but I don't think having them as products should be any kind 
of barrier until products are officially deprecated (no, I didn't say 
that, let's not go there this decade).

I think the first step is svn.zope.org. That makes them accessible for 
other people to work on. Shipping with Zope 2.x may or may not be a 
worthwhile goal in the short term - probably we need someone to cut a 
branch, see what it would look like and collectively review that.

Martin