[Zope-dev] naming Zope

[Tres Seaver]

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Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
>> To stir things up: I would like to suggest renumbering the next Zope 2
>> release to Zope 4. That reflects the large refactoring that is being
>> done to clean up the codebase and fully eggify Zope. There are enough
>> changes to warrant a new major version bump.
> 
> -100 again. We need to stop confusing people!
> 
> The only way we could do this would be if we definitely, 100%, 
> with-an-axe killed off any notion of Zope 3 as an app server or 
> application development framework and told everyone "the thing you need 
> to be using if you like Zope, is this Zope thing that's basically Zope 
> 2.14).
> 
> We won't do that.

We already have:  "Le roi est mort, vive le roi!" and all that.  Jim has
pronounced Zope3^H^H^H^HDecoy DOA.  Nobody is every going to care about
Zope3-the-appserver, as opposed to "the-libraries-harvested-from-Zope3"
(at least, the folks who might care are a tiny minority for branding
purposes).


Tres.
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