[Zope] Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

[Chris Withers]

Well, you know what I'm gonna say...

+1 for their demise.

+1 for DTML going too, oops, wait, Andreas said not to bring that up ;-)

cheers,

Chris

Jim Fulton wrote:

> 
> 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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