[Zope3-dev] Re: The vision thing

[Chris McDonough]

On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> My main point is that we need to consider each of these audiences, as
>> they have separate concerns.  We need to be explicit about this and
>> have messages and technical solutions tailored to each audience.
>
> Do we? Messages, perhaps, but we should also remember that Zope  
> *shouldn't* be all things to all people (because we'll fail  
> miserably at that). It should allow the most flexibility, but at  
> the end of the day, users will make a decision based on the trade- 
> off between what Zope is naturally good at and what it can be made  
> to do with some work.

I agree.  IMO, "Zope" should mean "the publisher and the component  
architecture, and maybe the security machinery", and other things  
should be add-ons.  I don't really know how much traction this idea  
has, though.

- C