[ZPT] spacify?

[Marc Lindahl]

On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 10:30  AM, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

>
> Marc Lindahl writes:
>> aw... you gotta be kidding!  All those nice keywords in DTML weren't
>> ported to ZPT?  Sheesh, two steps forward, six steps back! :)
>
> Given that this is the first request for this feature since we
> first implemented ZPT nearly three years ago, I'm not convinced this
> is all that useful to most users.

That's not a good criteria. There's a lot of legacy sites out there, 
and people don't change the code unless it's broken.  I have DTML sites 
running out there, and won't change them to ZPT unless I'm adding new 
stuff or doing a major overhaul....

The design cycle is quick, but once things are deployed, the change 
cycle is slow... backwards compatibility is vital for zope to move 
forward.  If I start upgrading sites and *everything breaks*, I'll have 
to re-evaluate the efficacy if zope itself.

>
> There's been discussion of making it easier to use collections of
> helper functions by extending the path syntax; perhaps that would be a
> place to put functions of interest to DTML users.

or modules?

>
>
>   -Fred
>
> -- 
> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation