Hello everyone, On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:40 +0200, Christian Grobmeier wrote: [...] > However I would like to know if there has been a decision meanwhile on > the prefix issue (see below). I would like to avoid to include ZC > before this change has been done, if it is going to happen. > > My preference is to change it. Its basically a complete rebrand and > when ZC offers some kind of helper script for users to at least > announce the files which use the wrong prefix, everything should be > pretty ok. I also think it's the last chance to do such a change. When > the next release is out people will claim about backwards > compatiblity. > > OK would like to hear you opinions on the prefix change.
I think this is a 100% no go for a product that claims to be enterprisy. Even when I would like to see namespaces, instead of this annoying prefixes, I would not recommend to do such a BC break. I have used several components of eZ/Zeta in many projects during the lastfive years and such a change will break all of them or they cannot be updated. I am really sure that most of project owners are not willing to pay for this refactoring, at least not in the next few weeks/months. In my opinion such a critical BC-break would let many(maybe most) users leave the project, because what can I expect from a project in the long-term, when these changes are done adhoc, without a long-tail-support phase. Just my 2 cent Manuel
