[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

Tres Seaver tseaver at zope.com
Wed Apr 6 09:47:00 EDT 2005


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Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> On Apr 6, 2005, at 6:59, Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> --On Dienstag, 5. April 2005 16:38 Uhr -0400 Jake <jake at zopezone.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> And that is probably the best arguement for keeping them around longer.
>>
>>
>> We should get to the point: if some people depend on ZClasses then
>> they should
>> take over some responsibility in maintaining them in future releases.
>> It can not be
>> that a "feature" regarded as obsolete (from the majority) and almost
>> unmaintained and
>> untouched since  ages holds up further releases.
> 
> 
> Amen. Actually, instead of maintaining them in the core the current
> users should immediately look at breaking it out of the core into a
> separate product, as suggested earlier, and maintain that product. I
> believe that would make it simpler both from a Zope maintainer
> perspective as well as from the ZClass maintainers' perspective.

Perhaps once Jim's current work lands, that might be possible.  As it
is, most of the work to make ZClasses function in Zope 2.8 has been at
the ZODB level (I think);  I doubt that anyone (except Dieter!) plans to
dive from the frying pan of ZClass implementation into the fire of ZODB
code any time soon.


Tres.
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