[Zope-dev] Where is the position of BlueBream in Zope ecosystem ?

[Tres Seaver]

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Chris McDonough wrote:
> Everything Tres said I agree with.
> 
> I think it's useful for descriptions of Zope-related frameworks to include BFG 
> and other frameworks that use a small number of Zope technologies.  But I think 
> some distinction needs to be made between "the ZTK" and "some Zope packages".
> 
> In particular, I'm uncomfortable with descriptions of BFG that say it "depends 
> on the ZTK" because the current formal definition of the ZTK is what's in its 
> buildout include file, or at least its defined by the packages listed at 
> http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/releases/packages-trunk.html.
> 
> By this definition, BFG isn't (and will never be) a "ZTK consumer", because it 
> doesn't use 95% of those packages; however it is very much a bicycle repair kit 
> consumer.
> 
> So it seems like a good idea to explicitly distinguish the set of packages that 
> BFG uses from "the ZTK" by giving the bicycle repair toolkit a name and saying 
> that the ZTK depends on that, if only to give another "target point" in a 
> diagram that includes frameworks that don't use the entire ZTK.  "ZCA" seems 
> good enough to me, although I don't really care what it's called.


The ZTK steering group does give a tiny bit of formal recognition to the
"ZCA" / "bicycle seat toolkit" subset, in that those packages are
supposed to try harder to keep compatibility with Python 2.4 than the
larger set which is the ZTK proper.  This de facto recognition is
precisely because the ZCA pacakges are already in wide use outside the
"Zope ecosphere", IIRC.


Tres.
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