Gary Poster wrote:
Zope 2 depends on Zope 3, via Five. Zope 3 does not depend on Zope 2.
A very good point, but one which makes me feel that Zope 2 shouldn't be
merged in with Zope 3 ;-)
Put differently, if we're merging in Zope 2 into the repository, then
why not SchoolTool, or any of the other projects that _use_ Zope 3?
Zope 2 devs don't have to touch Zope 3 unless they want to leverage
some cool new feature--in which case they are Zope Five devs,
probably. Zope 3 devs must touch Zope 2, in this new world order,
whether they want to or not, when changes break the stuff that Zope 2
has leveraged.
I don't agree. Again, if Zope 3 changes break SchoolTool, is that a Zope
3 developer problem or a SchoolTool problem? FOrcing the maintenance of
Zope 2 onto the already overloaded Zope 3 devs seems a little unfair...
The question here is effectively whether all Zope 3 developers must
become Zope 'Five' developers. As you said, Zope 2 developers can
choose to proceed essentially unaffected. Zope 3 devs could not.
And this for me, means that even if the repos merge, so evil
svn:externals can be avoided, the tests should not be run together on
the Zope 3 side, and "Zope 3" should come bundled with Zope 2, even if
Zope 2 comes bundled with Zope 3 and Five!
cheers,
Chris
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