On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:06 +0100, Lennart Regebro wrote: > OK, some initial, fuzzy comments: >
... > You are thinking about things like TTW development and such? Among other things. Zope 2 is more mature than Zope 3 in a lot of areas. WebDAV and process management are a couple of examples that occur to me off the top of my head. ... > > - Zope 5 will be the application server generally known as Zope. It > > will be backward compatible (to the same degree that Zope 2 > > releases are currently backward compatible with previous Zope 2 > > releases) with Zope 2. Zope 5 will similarly be backward > > compatible with Zope 3 applications built on top of the current > > Zope 3 application server. > > > > Note that Zope 5 will leverage Zope 3 technologies to allow a > > variety of configurations, including a Zope 2-like configuration > > with implicit acquisition and through-the-web development, and a > > Zope 3-like configuration that looks a lot like the current Zope > > 3 application server. Maybe, there will be a configuration that > > allows Zope 2 and Zope 3 applications to be combined to a > > significant degree. > > This overwhelms my complexity sensor. :-) Sorry, I'm not sure why. > I like the vision of Zope2 becoming a set of extra packages you > install for Zope3, to get backwards compatibility. Maybe this is the > same as what you call Zope 5, maybe not. I see Zope 5 being a combination of Zope 2 and Zope 3, keeping the best of both. > > - There wouldn't be confusion about 2 Zopes. > > This is definitely true... And given some of the discussion over the last month or two, I think this is pretty important. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )