[Zope] Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

[Stephan Richter]

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:52, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> For new projects, you should investigate the new options.
> Product development will get much simpler with Zope3 technology
> (and its schemas and views). Currently, there is no TTW
> ("Through The Web") development in Zope3 land, but that is planned.
> In about 2 to 4 years, we may have new ZClass like
> functionality implemented with Zope3 technology.
> And I am quite confident that the old ZClasses will live til
> then...

Note that I prototyped such functionality a couple years ago. One could create 
TTW (Persistent) schemas and then declare a Content Component Definition 
based on this schema. People could then create instances of those content 
components. The Content Component Definition utility took care of doing all 
the security and basic menu/view setup. One can then write views and adapters 
for the content component to give it functionality.

Unfortunately, persistent schemas got broken at some point, so the code is not 
that useful anymore. I really need to get together with Jim and force him to 
fix the problem with me, since I constantly forget what the problem is. ;-)

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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