[Zope-dev] naming Zope

[Tres Seaver]

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Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Okay, in the interests of making this discussion go quickly, there has 
>> been enough negative feedback about renaming Zope 2 to think we have no 
>> realistic chance of renaming it.
>>
>> We are still stuck with the following perceived sequence:
>>
>> Zope 2, Zope 3
>>
>> which implies that people should want to upgrade.
> 
> Does it? There's precedence for systems where n and n+1 does not 
> represent a linear upgrade path.
> 
> The '3' says more "if you're starting afresh, this is where you want to 
> start". I think that's still a correct statement.

Nope.  There is no point in treating the two as equivalent choices at
this point.  Nobody cares about the Z3 equivalent to Z2, only the libraries.

>> If we don't call Zope Framework "4.0", we'll be fine. We should call its 
>> first release 1.0 and there's no implication of a progression.
> 
> Yes. For the love of God, please don't call "the Zope Framework" 4.0!

Heh, don't call the "*the* Zope framework" at all!  There are a bunch of
frameworks lurking in the codebase, and none of them is a "web
framework" in the sense the rest of the Python web development community
users:  Grok and BFG do match what they mean, more or less.


Tres
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