On Fri, 2006-01-12 at 15:15 -0200, Sidnei da Silva wrote: > I, too, believe the Plone commnunity should be building formlib-based > widgets. But we have to be careful on our steps. Just saying that we > won't support Archetypes widgets 'because people might keep building > them' is shooting ourselves in the foot.
Yep, I can see some sense in that. > In the long term, if we do provide clear documentation about building > formlib widgets people *will* do that. If not for the > future-proofness, because building formlib widgets is easier and less > magical (it is easier right? :). Hehe, yep. > It's not a matter of differing opinions here. We both want to reach > the same goal! The only difference is that you want the > 'revolutionary' approach. I want the 'evolutionary' approach. People > are afraid of big changes. If we change too fast we will give people > the impression that Plone is not a stable platform, no matter how cool > it is to use formlib or whatnot. Yeah, I guess I'm just a little tired of the standard evolutionary-but-takes-3-years approach to this sort of thing. But I certainly do see the value in evolutionary. We don't want to scare existing developers away because we changed the rug to a concrete floor beneath them. > Even if we did manage to rewrite all the widgets using formlib we > would still have to provide the compatibility for applications until > everyone updates their products. And that's not one or two, the list > of products in the Collective is enormous. Indeed. > There are existing ways for prodding people into using the cool latest > technology and we've been achieving that by the use of 'deprecation' > mechanisms. There's no reason why widgets should be treated > differently. Right, again I'll just add I'm annoyed by the slowness ;) > In the end I believe our two approaches can and *need* to cohexist > safely. We need to get traction on getting formlib widgets and at the > same time we need to provide a compatibility layer to give everyone a > chance to reach the 'next level'. Yep I can go along with this. Both ways would make it work well for everyone and scare fewer people :) - Rocky -- Rocky Burt ServerZen Software -- http://www.serverzen.com News About The Server (blog) -- http://www.serverzen.net
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