[Zope] Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

[Jake]

As someone who has at least 5 different products using ZClasses across 10
different websites with millions of hits a month, I am certainly not happy
to see them go, but I do understand that their time has come.

If they are supported in 2.8 -> 2.9 and gone in 3.0 I guess that is ok.
Again, it is going to take me and others a lot of work to migrate out our
data from those products into other vehicles but such is progress.

Jake
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Jim Fulton said:
>
> ZClasses are a feature that support through-the-web development.
> Many people have found them useful in the past, but they have some
> significant deficiencies, including:
>
> - They can't be managed with file-system tools, especially
>    revision control systems like CVS and subversion.
>
> - They don't work well with Python development tools, like
>    profilers and debugger.
>
> - They aren't being actively maintained.
>
> Most serious Zope developers stopped using them a long time
> ago and are frustrated that we still expend resources keeping them
> around.  For example, the release of Zope 2.8 has been delayed
> by the requirement of getting ZClasses working with Zope 2.8.
>
> We could choose to deprecate ZClasses.  If we deprecated them in
> Zope 2.8, they would still work in Zope 2.8 and Zope 2.9, but
> their support would be removed in Zope 2.10.  Would anyone be upset
> if this happened?
>
> Jim
>
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