[Zope] How about removing broken things like Confera and ZDiscussions?

[Andy McKay]

How about a tested with version x field on Products?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cary O'Brien" <cobrien@Radix.Net>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] How about removing broken things like Confera and
ZDiscussions?


> >
> >
> >    There is a ZDiscussions that works. It is called ZUBB.
> >
> >    http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/ZUBB
> >
> >    But, I agree, old product that have been left behind (the old version
of
> >    ZDiscussions/Confera) should be marked and or archived.
> >
> >    J
> >
> >
> >
> > Might be better to have a more formal declaration of the dependencies
> > on versions of products relied upon at the download pages -- for some
> > products this has become a tricky and madning process to make sure all
> > the versions are correct for a product to run. This is natural in the
> > progress of Zope and Zope products and will become even more and issue
> > as Zope matures even further. This can be formalized. I do like the
> > way SGI does some of this.
> >
>
> Bangs head.  Doh!
>
> Why the heck don't products have explicit requirements the "package
require n.m"
> in TCL. Heck, python ought to.
>
> Import Fred(1.2) from Bedrock
>
> Or something like that.
>
> -- cary
>
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