[Zope] Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

Garito garito at sistes.net
Mon Apr 4 10:01:53 EDT 2005


Chris Withers escribió:

> 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
>>
>
Yep!
Don't talk about DTML or you will be punished (sorry Andreas I can't 
resist myself, hehe, obviously I'm joking)



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