[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-24 Thread Simon Michael
Sascha Welter wrote: If the new stuff is so great and easy to use, it should also be easy to put some documentation of it in Hear, hear. +1 insightful. ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-08 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: I wish they were gone, but they are still there. Someday, I'd like to se a TALES-based DTML, but I doubt I'll ever have time to do it. You know that means you want to deprecate it really ;-) I still maintaining ofrcing users to learn two templating languages, one of which is one

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Fulton
Dieter Maurer wrote: Lennart Regebro wrote at 2005-4-5 11:48 +0200: On the Paris sprint, one thing that was noted was how ironic it was that the release of 2.8, which includes support for the new recommended development paradigm, was held up becuase we neeeded to support an old non-recommended

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Fulton
Lennart Regebro wrote: On the Paris sprint, one thing that was noted was how ironic it was that the release of 2.8, which includes support for the new recommended development paradigm, was held up becuase we neeeded to support an old non-recommended one. :-) It boils down to backward

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Fulton
Andreas Jung wrote: --On Dienstag, 5. April 2005 16:38 Uhr -0400 Jake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that is probably the best arguement for keeping them around longer. We should get to the point: if some people depend on ZClasses then they should take over some responsibility in maintaining

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Fulton
Ausum Studio wrote: ... As for ZC, IMHO the issue should be treated as a matter of understanding the market rather than achieving a milestone. You created stuff that works in some way or another that people embraced. You also changed your company name to the name of the product of yours that

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Fulton
Jonathan Cyr wrote: Yoohoo, ZClasses are not an expert technology to use, they are an introduction to Zope... Just because I use a thing, doesn't mean I can support/maintain a thing. Exactly. I want you to use Zope even if you aren't in a position to maintain it yourself. I can read the

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Jake
Jim Fulton said: (There are no plans to deprecate DTML. It is even supported in Zope 3.) That is the best news I have heard all day (although, it is early). Jake -- Zoping for the rest of us http://www.ZopeZone.com ___ Zope maillist -

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Withers
Jake wrote: Jim Fulton said: (There are no plans to deprecate DTML. It is even supported in Zope 3.) That is the best news I have heard all day (although, it is early). I will be selling black flags for the mourning of a missed opportunity... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope Python

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: I've gotten a lot of grief because of the effort I've been putting into getting them to work with Zope 2.8 and the effect that that has had on the 2.8 schedule. Many active Zope developers are (understandbly) dismissive of ZClasses, but I think we can't ignore the many people

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Max M
Chris Withers wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: I think ZPT and python scripts are much more useful tools for newbies who will often enter with a scripting rather than OO frame of mind. Wouldn't that be ZPT and adapters ;-) -- hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark http://www.mxm.dk/ IT's Mad Science

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Philip Kilner
Hi Chris, Chris Withers wrote: (There are no plans to deprecate DTML. It is even supported in Zope 3.) That is the best news I have heard all day (although, it is early). I will be selling black flags for the mourning of a missed opportunity... With or without a circled A? ;-) -- Regards, PhilK

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Florent Guillaume
Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jake wrote: Jim Fulton said: (There are no plans to deprecate DTML. It is even supported in Zope 3.) That is the best news I have heard all day (although, it is early). I will be selling black flags for the mourning of a missed opportunity...

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Fulton
Florent Guillaume wrote: Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jake wrote: Jim Fulton said: (There are no plans to deprecate DTML. It is even supported in Zope 3.) That is the best news I have heard all day (although, it is early). I will be selling black flags for the mourning of a missed

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Dieter Maurer
Chris Withers wrote at 2005-4-7 13:22 +0100: ... but the community as a whole recommends against them, which seems to be the consensus here. A funny definition of consensus... It may be the majority opinion but it definitely is not consensus... -- Dieter

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-07 Thread Dieter Maurer
Jim Fulton wrote at 2005-4-7 05:50 -0400: Dieter Maurer wrote: ... ZClasses feature prominently in the Zope book. That should probably be fixed. Seems they are more recommended than the new development paradigm (which does not yet feature at all in the Zope book). The new developement

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-06 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jens Vagelpohl wrote: On Apr 6, 2005, at 6:59, Andreas Jung wrote: --On Dienstag, 5. April 2005 16:38 Uhr -0400 Jake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that is probably the best arguement for keeping them around longer. We should get to the

Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-06 Thread Dieter Maurer
Tres Seaver wrote at 2005-4-6 09:47 -0400: ... Perhaps once Jim's current work lands, that might be possible. As it is, most of the work to make ZClasses function in Zope 2.8 has been at the ZODB level (I think); I doubt that anyone (except Dieter!) plans to dive from the frying pan of ZClass

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-05 Thread Max M
Jim Fulton wrote: We could choose to deprecate ZClasses. If we deprecated them in Zope 2.8, they would still work in Zope 2.8 and Zope 2.9, but their support would be removed in Zope 2.10. Would anyone be upset if this happened? They are evil, they are bad. They lead newcommers down a blind

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-01 Thread Maik Jablonski
Jake wrote: My vote is to keep them around for 2.8 and 2.9 but say goodbye after that. Again.. it won't be easy for us, but who said progress ever was. +1 for dropping ZClasses as soon as possible (IMHO 2.10 is a good target), but before that, some comment in REALLY BIG LETTERS should be made in

[Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?

2005-04-01 Thread Simon Michael
FYI, there's a kind of overview of possible ZClass alternatives at http://zopewiki.org/HowToAddCustomContentTypes . ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists -