[Zope-dev] naming Zope

[Martin Aspeli]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously 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.
> 
> Actually, we have already done that.

Well, except that Grok runs on "Zope 3 the app server" or at least "Zope 
3 the platform".

I just think we need to stop playing with names and numbers. I have 
absolutely no problem with Zope 2 version numbers reaching 2.20 or whatever.

Martin

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