[Zope-dev] Re: Zope2 interfaces delenda est!

[Tres Seaver]

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Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>>> Previously Tres Seaver wrote:
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>>>> I'd like to rip out the old Interface module from the 2.11 branch and
>>>> the trunk, along with all the useless decoys which import it.  THere is
>>>> no *good* BBB reason to keep them around:  anybody still depending on
>>>> them in A.G. 2008 needs to switch over, anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Objections?  I'll fix the CMF breakage myself, but the Plone folks are
>>>> going to have to revisit lots of grotty bits.
>>> Isn't the policy to deprecate in release N and remove in N+2?
>> They've been deprecated for five years.
> 
> I agree that they've been deprecated for years, so that shouldn't need 
> to hold anything up. That said, the consensus seems to be to only remove 
> them from the trunk, as Zope 2.11 in a stabilization phase. Removing 
> them from the trunk means at least progress.

I have checked in the changes on a new branch, made from the 2.11 branch
as of today:

  http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/tseaver-2.11-no-z2-interfaces

The intent is to merge the code only to the trunk (*not* to the 2.11
branch) from here.  However, outside projects (CMF, Plone, Silva, etc.)
could begin testing against that branch to find the breakage they need
to repair.

While excising the cruft, I noted a bunch of other cleanups which would
make the code more habitable:

 - Consolidate interface definitions into the 'interfaces' module
   (or package) from current separate modules in ZCTextIndex, Sessions,
   and Transience products.

 - Clean up a bunch of crufty unit tests, again mostly in the products.

I have the merge to the trunk done in my sandbox, and will likely check
it in tomorrow unless somebody finds a timebomb.  The merge went cleanly
via:

  $ svn co $ZSVN/Zope/trunk Zope-trunk
  $ cd Zope-trunk
  $ svn merge -r 85793:85794 \
    $ZSVN/Zope/branches/tseaver-2.11-no-z2-interfaces
  ...
  $ make clobber inplace
  ...
  $ /path/to/python test.py --all
  ...
  Total: 6592 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors in 26.892 seconds.



Tres.
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