[Zope-dev] [ANN] pythonproducts 1.0alpha1 released

2006-02-27 Thread Rocky Burt
Hi all, I've now made available the first public release of pythonproducts. pythonproducts == Description A mechanism to construct Zope 2 products as regular python packages. This enables a python package to be deployed as a Zope 2 product using a similar strategy as Zope

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule and deprecation decisions

2006-02-27 Thread Jim Fulton
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 09:58 +0100, Christian Theune wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 12:11 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: A while ago, we had some discussion on when to make releases and how long to support deprecated features. The discussion has died down so I'll summarize what I think the

[Zope-dev] Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Jim Fulton
I'd like to get feedback on two possible visions for the future of Zope 2 and Zope 3. 1) Our current vision (AFAIK) is that Zope 3 will eventually replace Zope 2 - There will be lots of overlap between the Zope 2 and Zope 3 lifetimes. (Zope 2 might be supported more or less

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Andrew Sawyers
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 10:37 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: I'd like to get feedback on two possible visions for the future of Zope 2 and Zope 3. 1) Our current vision (AFAIK) is that Zope 3 will eventually replace Zope 2 - There will be lots of overlap between the Zope 2 and Zope 3

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen
My 2 EuroCents: Vision 1 is, I think what is happening at the moment for pragamatic and practical reasons. Drawbacks of this is that we loose the ZopeX3 (Zope3X?) vision of cutting loose from old burdens and take off to new horizons. Vision 2, on the other hand (at least to me in my

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Lennart Regebro
OK, some initial, fuzzy comments: On 2/27/06, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this vision, Zope 3 would have to become a lot more like Zope 2, or we would lose features. You are thinking about things like TTW development and such? Because I see that as add-on products of different

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen
Max M said the following on 2006-02-27 17:26: 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. read the full sentence that Jim wrote: 2) In an alternate vision, Zope 2 evolves to Zope 5. ... Note

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Stefane Fermigier
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. Layers are good, when they reliably hide complexity. The reason for Zope 3 is to make it simpler for developers. Yep. 14'30'' wikis and such.

[Zope-dev] Re: Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Max M
Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote: Max M said the following on 2006-02-27 17:26: 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. read the full sentence that Jim wrote: 2) In an alternate vision, Zope 2

[Zope-dev] Re: Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Jim Fulton wrote: 2) In an alternate vision, Zope 2 evolves to Zope 5. +1 as already discussed at PyCON. - 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

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:31:33AM +0100, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: I will also note that just because Zope 2 won't die, it doesn't mean we shouldn't clean it up. Eventually, Zope should mostly be reusing things from Zed. +sys.maxint I think this will be the way we get a real forward

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Release schedule and deprecation decisions

2006-02-27 Thread Stephan Richter
On Monday 27 February 2006 09:31, Jim Fulton wrote: Thinking about this some more, I propose we should go for June and November this year, to give Christian and others more time and then do May and November from there on. +1 This way the Easter sprint could contribute to the release.

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Stephan Richter
On Monday 27 February 2006 10:37, Jim Fulton wrote: 1) Our current vision (AFAIK) is that Zope 3 will eventually    replace Zope 2 2) In an alternate vision, Zope 2 evolves to Zope 5. As you probably know already, I am -1 on the second proposal, since it will disallow us to finally get rid

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Stephan Richter
On Monday 27 February 2006 11:06, Lennart Regebro wrote: 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. That would sound good to me!!! Regards, Stephan -- Stephan

[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] Two visions

2006-02-27 Thread Gary Poster
On Feb 27, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: 2) In an alternate vision, Zope 2 evolves to Zope 5. Of the two, this seems more believable. It also may be the best we can do. However, I still don't like it. :-) - Zope 5 will be the application server generally known as Zope. It

Re: [Zope-dev] ImageFile weirdness?

2006-02-27 Thread Chris Withers
Jürgen Herrmann wrote: On Thu, February 23, 2006 09:02, Chris Withers wrote: 1. why the 3 posts? sorry, there was a long delay before my messages appeared, so i thought i had problems with my subscription. sorry for the triple post! Good grief, please check the archives to see where your

Re: [Zope-dev] Zope 2.9 releases for Windows?

2006-02-27 Thread Chris Withers
Sidnei da Silva wrote: Basically you need (a properly licensed) VC 7, and Python 2.4.2 installed. Not much else has changed. Unfortunately we haven't gotten around setting up VC 7 here. Okay, once I have those two, then what do I do to end up with a binary distro for Zope 2.9.1? cheers,