[Zope-dev] Zope 2: deprecated products

[Hanno Schlichting]

Hi.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:24 PM, William Heymann <kosh at aesaeion.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 January 2011, yuppie wrote:
>> Zope trunk (2.14) no longer ships with these Products:
>>
>>    Products.BTreeFolder2
>>    Products.ExternalMethod
>>    Products.MailHost
>>    Products.MIMETools
>>    Products.PythonScripts
>>    Products.StandardCacheManagers
>
> What will this mean for those of us that don't use plone and use all of the
> above products? Will these products continue to be maintained in some way or
> are they being abandoned?

It depends on what you understand under the term maintenance. With the
exception of MailHost (which got a zope.sendmail based refactoring)
none of these products have seen any non-cosmetic changes in the past
five years.

So if you are looking for ongoing development and improvements, you
were in the wrong place for a while now. If you are looking for stable
and non-changing code, you'll get that. All of these products work
with the last Python 2 version (2.7) so there should be some years
ahead in which they'll work unchanged.

I wouldn't expect any of them to be ported to Python 3 anymore,
though. But in the end that is up to the users of these products -
there's just no magic community around anymore that will work on them
for you. But that's been true for Zope 2 at large for some years now.

Hanno