[Zope-dev] Plone vs. Zope2 was: Re: naming Zope

[Chris McDonough]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 05:34, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
>> Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>
>>> The current line of thinking for Plone is about this: Plone 4 will still
>>> run on Zope2. Plone 5 will run on Python 3.x and not depend on Zope2
>>> anymore at all. We can all guesstimate on what kind of timeline that
>>> will mean.
>> There isn't going to *be* a Zope3 to run on.
> 
> Right. He didn't say that it would though. In this scenario, Plone
> would be one of the platforms using the Zope Framework, like Grok and
> BFG.
> 
>> Zope2 is the only game in town, as far as appservers go.
> 
> So neither Grok nor BFG exist? :-) I don't know how you are thinking here.
> 

I think Tres is trying to draw a disinction between "application server" and
"web framework".  I don't think that distinction is useful as far as your
garden-variety web programmer goes, though, to be honest.

- C