[Zope3-dev] Re: Some thoughts on Zope 3, Zope 3 applications, and Zope 3 instances

[Jim Fulton]

On Jan 6, 2007, at 7:19 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Just splitting stuff up into little flexible pieces won't attract  
>>> people. If our goal is to attract Zope 3 developers we need to  
>>> make it easy to get started. We can also say that Zope 3 is  
>>> componentized and flexible and all that, and this will attract  
>>> developers too, but if the first bit is too hard all our talk  
>>> about flexibility will lead to nothing.
>>>
>>> So, we need to do both: make it easy to get started, and  
>>> componentizing for greater flexibility later. If we just do the  
>>> first, we make Zope 2 style mistakes and end up with a monolithic  
>>> system that should be easier to develop with. If we just do the  
>>> latter, we make Zope 3 style mistakes and end up with a well  
>>> componentized system that isn't used a lot.
>> Agreed, we need both.  We should understand though that the thing I'm
>> calling (soley for the sake of discussion) is probably not a good
>> starting point.
>
> I think I miss a word here; the thing you're calling what?

Sorry, OFS

>
>> IMO, it could be if someone was working on it.
>> I also think that it would be a fine project on it's own.  Or maybe
>> there's another project that would serve better. I don't know.
>
> I'm trying to understand what you're referring to here. :)

I'm referring to the application we've been distributing in Zope 3  
releases,
which, for the sake of discussion, I've been calling the OFS and  
you've been
calling the ZMI.

Jim

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