[Zope-dev] List of packages in ZTK

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 4, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:

> On 7/4/09 7:55 PM, Stephan Richter wrote:
>> On Saturday 04 July 2009, Christian Theune wrote:
>>> I took the Zope 3.4 KGS, removed the obvious packages that do not  
>>> belong
>>> to the ZTK out of the list and created a home for the master list  
>>> that
>>> defines which packages belong to the ZTK.
>>>
>>> It's in the Zope toolkit documentation:
>>> http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/about/packages.html
>>>
>>> So, if you see that a package is missing or is classified in the  
>>> wrong
>>> way, then please speak up.
>>
>> To be honest, I am very disappointed by this list. It is totally  
>> meaningless
>> to me since it does not represent any list with which I can build  
>> even a
>> fairly simple application today. There is not a single z3c package  
>> in there.
>
> Maybe not surprisingly I have the opposite feeling.  To me, it's  
> already a
> pretty large set of "definite" packages (~60), and a definitely  
> large set of
> "definite" + "under review" packages (~120).  Are we going to be  
> able to
> maintain all that software over time?

Yes

>  If we do, will we have time to do
> anything else?

Yes.  Generally, these packages should require very little  
maintenance.  They've gotten a lot recently to try to reduce  
dependencies, but I don't think they'll need much going forward.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation