[Zope] Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

[Jake]

My vote is to keep them around for 2.8 and 2.9 but say goodbye after that.

Again.. it won't be easy for us, but who said progress ever was.

Jake
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Jim Fulton said:
> Jake wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If we deprecated them now, they would be gone in 2.10 (not to be
> confused with 3.0) too.
>
>> 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.
>
> A decision hasn't been made.  People who don't use them feel strongly
> that they should go.  I'm trying to get a sense of how widely they are
> used.  I'm trying to understand if people who use ZClasses are a silent
> majority, minority, or small minority.
>
> Jim
>
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