-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: > Max M wrote: > >> Jim Fulton wrote: >> >>> 2) In an alternate vision, Zope 2 evolves to Zope 5. >> >> >> >> Zope 2 is complicated! It has too many layers of everything. >> >> The reason for Zope 3 is to make it simpler for developers. >> >> Therefore I believe that any succesfull strategy would require Zope 3 >> to be usable completely without all the Zope 2 layers. >> >> If Zope 3 becomes just another layer on top of Zope 2 -> CMF -> Plone >> it will not reduce complexity, as any developer would still need to >> learn the entire stack. >> >> Wherever practical, Zope 2 technologies should be rewritten to Zope 3 >> technologies to remove layers from the stack. > > > I think these are good points. > > Five runs the risk of being yet another layer on a stack like Plone, but > Five also gives the chance of us stripping off these layers and > replacing it with something cleaner, and at the same time Five is giving > an impulse to Zope 3 development as things slowly get ported to Zope 3 > or written in a Zope 3 style. > > The Five project has the right attitude to deal with such integration > issues. We have been quite successful: In Zope 2.9 it's possible to > build modern Zope 3-style apps, using formlib and sqlos and so on (we've > done it). > > In this vision, the Zope 3 project should stay where it is and push > things forward. That doesn't mean Five should be ignored by Zope 3 > developers, but it should be compartmentalized in people's minds. Zope 3 > does innovation, Five does integration, and then the big codebases can > move forward using both.
I think the other major point is the "door #2" proposal takes pressure off of Zope3: under that regime, Zope3 does not need to grow all the features present in Zope2, which door #1 *does* imply. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEBHBA+gerLs4ltQ4RAs22AJ44rNQIZB9HCt1S6fp7s36Hq68MNgCgv37w PHiyspa7XahkllCJmueEU5w= =ZyJQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com