Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-06 Thread Jean Jordaan
Or Zed is the part of Zope that can be used without Zope. Yes, it's always been the Zed Object Publishing Environment. Now the Zed can get a job :-](I'm neutral regarding the suggestion.) -- jean ___ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org

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

2006-03-06 Thread Martijn Faassen
Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I wasn't trying to define app server. I was describing the Zope app server. As long as you realize you do risk confusion even by saying 'Zope app server'. To me, Zope 3 is an app server, so when you say 'the Zope app server' will include its functionalities too.

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

2006-03-05 Thread Jim Fulton
Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I think that having one name for two radically different, though related, things is very confusing. There are really 2 main technologies that people care about: 1. The Zope app server. This is characterized by things like an object file

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

2006-03-05 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Jim Fulton wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I think that having one name for two radically different, though related, things is very confusing. There are really 2 main technologies that people care about: 1. The Zope app server. This is characterized by things like

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

2006-03-05 Thread Jim Fulton
Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] Sounds like the original vision of Zope 3 without the X. I thought we never got around to developing this stuff the last time. Actually, no. We originally said that we would provide a transition path. I said over

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

2006-03-04 Thread Rocky Burt
On Thu, 2006-02-03 at 10:32 -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 10:29, Stefane Fermigier wrote: Geoff Davis wrote: I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great. I think it is stupid. Me too!! Not I. Particularly not if we want

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-04 Thread Rocky Burt
On Thu, 2006-02-03 at 16:49 +0100, Paul Everitt wrote: I think Geoff's core point could be met by keeping the word Zope for the app server. I think Geoff's deeper point was to rethink the word used for the CA, which actually doesn't want to be thought of us an app server. +1 -- Rocky

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-03 Thread Max M
Geoff Davis wrote: No, I think I understood you. I was being sloppy in my use of language. I should have said something more like Zope 3 then becomes an application server built around the Zed library. Or Zed is the part of Zope that can be used without Zope. -- hilsen/regards Max M,

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

2006-03-03 Thread Martijn Faassen
Jim Fulton wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] Sounds like the original vision of Zope 3 without the X. I thought we never got around to developing this stuff the last time. Actually, no. We originally said that we would provide a transition path. I said over and over that this was *not*

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

2006-03-03 Thread Martijn Faassen
Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I think that having one name for two radically different, though related, things is very confusing. There are really 2 main technologies that people care about: 1. The Zope app server. This is characterized by things like an object file system, through-the-web

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Stefane Fermigier
Geoff Davis wrote: I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great. I think it is stupid. We (Zope Corp + the Zope Community) have spent 8 years building the Zope brand, and you want to restart from scratch ? S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77

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

2006-03-02 Thread Stephan Richter
On Thursday 02 March 2006 10:29, Stefane Fermigier wrote: Geoff Davis wrote: I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great. I think it is stupid. Me too!! Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k -

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Jim Fulton
Geoff Davis wrote: +1 on Jim's suggestion #2. However, if I am understanding things correctly, it doesn't really sound like door #2 entails a huge deviation from from our current course of bringing Zope 2 and Zope 3 together gradually. I don't really care what the converged product is called,

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Geoff Davis
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:38:03 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great. Zope 3 is a _huge_ overhaul and it needs to be obvious to the world that it is dramatically better than crufty old Zope 2. Zope 3 then becomes the Zed application

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Stefane Fermigier
Geoff Davis wrote: Yes, and the use of the new name Z or Zed is a way to emphasize that the Zed library is NOT a big, monolithic app server; rather, it's something new and cool. Zope 3 is new and cool. Or at least, let's spin it this way. Screencasts, podcasts, 14'59 wikis (quicker than

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Everitt
Stefane Fermigier wrote: Geoff Davis wrote: I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great.. I think it is stupid. We (Zope Corp + the Zope Community) have spent 8 years building the Zope brand, and you want to restart from scratch ? Hehe, poor Geoff. :) In the

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Everitt
Geoff Davis wrote: On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:38:03 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great. Zope 3 is a _huge_ overhaul and it needs to be obvious to the world that it is dramatically better than crufty old Zope 2. Zope 3 then becomes the

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Jim Fulton
Paul Everitt wrote: ... People have it set in their brain that Zope is a monolithic web application server. Hard to dispel that meme. Yup. I'd rather adjust the meme to: Zope is a agile flexible extensible app server with rich services. :) Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Stefane Fermigier wrote: I think that the idea of giving Zed its own, distinct identity is great. I think it is stupid. We (Zope Corp + the Zope Community) have spent 8 years building the Zope brand, and you want to restart from scratch ? Good point. There's the question: Does this zed

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

2006-03-02 Thread Benji York
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Good point. There's the question: Does this zed thing need a different name at all? If we want other people to pick it up, then it seems like a good idea to distinguish it from Zope-the-app-server. Paul seems to suggest that in his response. How about zopelib?

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

2006-03-02 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Benji York wrote: Good point. There's the question: Does this zed thing need a different name at all? If we want other people to pick it up, then it seems like a good idea to distinguish it from Zope-the-app-server. Paul seems to suggest that in his response. How about zopelib? If we want

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions?

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Aspeli
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:18:27 -, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zope is a agile flexible extensible app server with rich services. You forgot Enterprise. Martin -- (muted) ___ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org

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

2006-03-01 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:00, Jim Fulton wrote: 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. Except that Michael Kerrins recent WebDAV work will shaddow Zope 2's support. If I

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

2006-03-01 Thread Stephan Richter
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:33, Martijn Faassen wrote: Are you kidding? No, I'm not kidding. +1 on the entire post from me too. And I would really like to see the questions he raised answered. We just recovered from this BBB overpromise, now we want to make another one. We also just

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

2006-03-01 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:12:08AM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: | On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:00, Jim Fulton wrote: | 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. | | Except that

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

2006-03-01 Thread Stephan Richter
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:24, Sidnei da Silva wrote: | Except that Michael Kerrins recent WebDAV work will shaddow Zope 2's | support. If I understand his improved implementation correctly, then it | is very, very cool! Did you run the litmus tests against it? :) I don't know what that

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

2006-03-01 Thread Sidnei da Silva
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:29:05AM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: | On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:24, Sidnei da Silva wrote: | | Except that Michael Kerrins recent WebDAV work will shaddow Zope 2's | | support. If I understand his improved implementation correctly, then it | | is very, very

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

2006-03-01 Thread Stephan Richter
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:32, Sidnei da Silva wrote: What you think about turning those into functional doctests? Of course a very, very big +1. :-) Though I woul split them up, so that we can only test features that we know we have implemented. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU

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

2006-03-01 Thread Michael Kerrin
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 14:32, Sidnei da Silva wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:29:05AM -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: | On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:24, Sidnei da Silva wrote: | | Except that Michael Kerrins recent WebDAV work will shaddow Zope 2's | | support. If I understand his

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

2006-03-01 Thread Jim Fulton
Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:29 +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I see Zope 5 being a combination of Zope 2 and Zope 3, keeping the best of both. I think we already have Zope 5, and it's called Zope 2.9. Perhaps I'm wrong.

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

2006-03-01 Thread Jim Fulton
Stephan Richter wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:33, Martijn Faassen wrote: Are you kidding? No, I'm not kidding. +1 on the entire post from me too. And I would really like to see the questions he raised answered. OK, done. We just recovered from this BBB overpromise, What are

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

2006-03-01 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 3/1/06, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's your point? That we shouldn't plan? That we shouldn't have a common vision for where we're going, or communicate that vision? Well, not neccesarily. Things change, and the plan for the future has not always been the same. The important

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

2006-03-01 Thread Jim Fulton
Lennart Regebro wrote: On 3/1/06, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's your point? That we shouldn't plan? That we shouldn't have a common vision for where we're going, or communicate that vision? Well, not neccesarily. Things change, and the plan for the future has not always been

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

2006-03-01 Thread Jim Fulton
Stephan Richter wrote: On Wednesday 01 March 2006 10:06, Jim Fulton wrote: I don't see how *saying* what Zope 5 will contain will make it *exist* any time sooner. You seem to be arguing against a roadmap, which is puzzling. I don't think Martijn is arguing against a roadmap, he just

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

2006-03-01 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 3/1/06, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lennart Regebro wrote: Well, not neccesarily. Things change, and the plan for the future has not always been the same. The important part is that we work in the same direction. How is that possible if we don't communicate the vision? In the

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

2006-02-28 Thread Dmitry Vasiliev
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. +1 -- Dmitry Vasiliev (dima at hlabs.spb.ru) http://hlabs.spb.ru

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

2006-02-28 Thread Encolpe Degoute
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lennart Regebro a écrit : | OK, some initial, fuzzy comments: | | On 2/27/06, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |2) In an alternate vision, Zope 2 evolves to Zope 5. | | - Zope 5 will be the application server generally known as Zope. It |

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

2006-02-28 Thread Jim Fulton
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

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

2006-02-28 Thread Martijn Faassen
Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I see Zope 5 being a combination of Zope 2 and Zope 3, keeping the best of both. I think we already have Zope 5, and it's called Zope 2.9. Perhaps I'm wrong. If so, how does Zope 5 differ from Zope 2.9? Regards, Martijn

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions

2006-02-28 Thread Philipp von Weitershausen
Martijn Faassen wrote: I see Zope 5 being a combination of Zope 2 and Zope 3, keeping the best of both. I think we already have Zope 5, and it's called Zope 2.9. I'd rather say it's called Zope 2.15 or something :). Philipp ___ Zope-Dev maillist

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

2006-02-28 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 2/28/06, Jim Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Ah, and here I got an answer to the question I just posted. :) Much of Zope2 maturity is there

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

2006-02-28 Thread Jim Fulton
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:29 +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I see Zope 5 being a combination of Zope 2 and Zope 3, keeping the best of both. I think we already have Zope 5, and it's called Zope 2.9. Perhaps I'm wrong. If so, how does Zope 5 differ from Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions

2006-02-28 Thread Martijn Faassen
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: Martijn Faassen wrote: I see Zope 5 being a combination of Zope 2 and Zope 3, keeping the best of both. I think we already have Zope 5, and it's called Zope 2.9. I'd rather say it's called Zope 2.15 or something :). Seriously, we are developing

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

2006-02-28 Thread Martijn Faassen
Jim Fulton wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:29 +0100, Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: [snip] I see Zope 5 being a combination of Zope 2 and Zope 3, keeping the best of both. I think we already have Zope 5, and it's called Zope 2.9. Perhaps I'm wrong. If so, how does Zope 5

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

2006-02-28 Thread Gary Poster
On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: Are you kidding? No, I'm not kidding. +1 to what Martijn said in this email (not quoting the whole thing to save precious bandwith). ___ Zope-Dev maillist -

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

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