[Zope-dev] Zope 4.0, maybe not such a bad idea...

[Jim Fulton]

On Apr 2, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Remember this:
>
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm
>
> Well, that lead to this:
>
> http://www.parrot.org/
>
> One of the reasons I got suckered into replying was that I thought  
> this
> might be the result of some stuff a few of us had talked about at the
> Zope BOF at PyCon.
>
> I actually think having a 4.0 release of Zope that unifies things  
> could
> be used to make things a lot clearer...
>
> - Zope Framework 4.0
>
> What Martijn has announced and is already being worked on extensively.
>
> - Zope A 4.0
>
> What was to be Zope 2.12
>
> - Zope B 4.0
>
> Whatever the next pending release of the Zope 3 appserver stuff was to
> be. (Need to keep the Canonical and ZC guys happy afterall ;-) )
>
> www.zope.org could then just be a radically cut down link portal to
> a.zope.org, b.zope.org and framework.zope.org, which I'd imagine to be
> brochurewear, download and/or KGS sites for each of the above.
>
> I'd suggesting splitting the svn access stuff out to dev.zope.org
> because it transcends all three.
>
> docs.zope.org could hoover up the rest, with any remaining stuff being
> humanely dispatched.
>
> Seriously, how do people feel about this?


I don't think we need A&B.  Maybe just "Zope" and "Zope Framework".

I like the idea of using a number larger than 3. (I've suggested 5 in  
the past.)

Overall +1.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation