Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-30 Thread Martijn Faassen
Lennart Regebro wrote: > I agree with everything except: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 23:30, Martijn Faassen wrote: >> Goal 2: We want users to use the ZTK instead of the Zope 3.4 KGS. > > I don't agree with this statement. What we want is that the Zope 3 KGS > becomes based on the ZTK KGS. After

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-30 Thread Lennart Regebro
I agree with everything except: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 23:30, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Goal 2: We want users to use the ZTK instead of the Zope 3.4 KGS. I don't agree with this statement. What we want is that the Zope 3 KGS becomes based on the ZTK KGS. After that happens, people might realize

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Assuming ZTK x.y won't have zope.app packages, this means that those > upgrading to Zope 2.13 might be helped by a list of working versions of > those zope.app.* packages (such as the one in zopeapp), or am I wrong? > Of course I imagine th

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hanno Schlichting wrote: [snip explanation of current Zope 2 and Plone plans, thanks] > So the two main upgrade paths we have are Zope 3.3.2 to ZTK 0.5. And > then at some point in maybe 12 to 18 months a ZTK 0.5 to ZTK x.y > upgrade. This also means that an actual ZTK release, that is done > anywh

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Hanno Schlichting wrote: >> Not really. Zope 2.12 is exactly that transitionary release defining a >> KGS for everything that was included in Zope 2.11 (~3.4.1). > > Ah, I didn't realize Zope 2.12 was already based on an earlier version >

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Martijn Faassen > wrote: >> I think a zopeapp KGS that will help them transition existing code from >> Zope 2.12 to Zope 2.13 in working condition would be helpful to Zope 2 >> users. > > Not really. Zope 2.12 is exactly that transition

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > I think a zopeapp KGS that will help them transition existing code from > Zope 2.12 to Zope 2.13 in working condition would be helpful to Zope 2 > users. Not really. Zope 2.12 is exactly that transitionary release defining a KGS for every

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: > We have three perspectives: > > * the ZTK is new, therefore the ZTK doesn't need to care about Zope 3 at > all. +1 > * the ZTK is a renamed, refocused Zope 3, therefore the ZTK needs to > care about Zope 3. - -1 > * bot

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > * the ZTK is new, therefore the ZTK doesn't need to care about Zope 3 at > all. I'm strongly in this camp. The other camps can readily be supported on top of this view of the ZTK by providing new names for higher-level toolkits and applic

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Tres Seaver wrote: > Martijn Faassen wrote: [snip] >> The ZTK cannot be an excuse to just drop support for a large part of the >> existing users of the ZTK. It's a *means* to do so. > > What existing users does the ZTK have? I'll rewrite that: The ZTK cannot be an excuse to just drop support f

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fred Drake wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Martijn Faassen > wrote: >> But right now we need to provide some guidance for how people can move >> away from these packages in a sane manner. And we should make sure we >> continue to test the z

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: > Hanno Schlichting wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Martijn Faassen >> wrote: >>> And let's please not turn this around: I'm not putting anything *in*. >>> Something was *removed*. Let's remove it responsibly. Not ju

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Lennart Regebro wrote: [snip] > What difference would there be between a zopeapp KGS and a Zope3 KGS? Not much. More sharing between Grok, Zope 3 and Zope 2? Explicitly aimed at supporting backwards compatibility and upgrade path only? We've been maintaining something close to a zopeapp KGS with

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hey, Tres Seaver wrote: [snip] > You need to identify whose ox is being gored here by dropping those > packages: I don't see anybody but you arguing for their inclusion. In > particular, I don't see anybody who knows *which* zope.app packages they > need, and has a credible argument for why thos

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Lennart Regebro
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 23:11, Martijn Faassen wrote: > I'm looking at this from the perspective of the discontinuity we will > introduce for existing users of the libraries that are now in the Zope > Toolkit but were formerly presented as Zope 3, and the guidance we offer > for people to move ont

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Fred Drake wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Martijn Faassen > wrote: >> But right now we need to provide some guidance for how people can move >> away from these packages in a sane manner. And we should make sure we >> continue to test the zope.app.* packages when we make ZTK changes, fo

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hi there, Tres Seaver wrote: [snip] > Who is upgrading? There are not historical users of the ZTK, only users > of package sets with greater or lesser intersections with the ZTK. [snip] > You are acting like we have code in the wild which needs to upgrade from > some released version of the ZTK

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Hanno Schlichting wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Martijn Faassen > wrote: >> And let's please not turn this around: I'm not putting anything *in*. >> Something was *removed*. Let's remove it responsibly. Not just disclaim >> responsibility and drop it all. > > So far I defined the ZTK

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > But right now we need to provide some guidance for how people can move > away from these packages in a sane manner. And we should make sure we > continue to test the zope.app.* packages when we make ZTK changes, for > the time being. > > Le

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: > Chris McDonough wrote: >> I don't think "the ZTK" as defined by the historical constraints under >> discussion here has much attraction for a large number of folks who are >> otherwise willing to put effort into maintaining Z

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: > [snip] >> You are ignoring my point though: why should the ZTK have to be burdened >> with trying to be backwards compatible with something that it never was? >> Why are you insisting on putting Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wichert Akkerman wrote: > On 12/29/09 16:25 , Martijn Faassen wrote: >> Earlier this year we decided to refocus our efforts on the ZTK, a >> leaner, meaner Zope 3 with a different focus, which has code that we >> really use, no UI, and with cleaner dep

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Fred Drake wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> It seems that you want to have a 'ZTK+' which aims to be backwards >> compatible with Zope 3 but is somehow not Zope 3 itself. That is >> something that not everybody appears to be interested in judging by the >> lack

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > And let's please not turn this around: I'm not putting anything *in*. > Something was *removed*. Let's remove it responsibly. Not just disclaim > responsibility and drop it all. So far I defined the ZTK based on what we wrote on http://doc

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Chris McDonough wrote: > I don't think "the ZTK" as defined by the historical constraints under > discussion here has much attraction for a large number of folks who are > otherwise willing to put effort into maintaining Zope packages. > > For these folks, any reduction in number of dependencies

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Wichert Akkerman wrote: [snip] > You are ignoring my point though: why should the ZTK have to be burdened > with trying to be backwards compatible with something that it never was? > Why are you insisting on putting Zope3 in it? We should not remove it until we have a good way to upgrade people

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Chris McDonough
I don't think "the ZTK" as defined by the historical constraints under discussion here has much attraction for a large number of folks who are otherwise willing to put effort into maintaining Zope packages. For these folks, any reduction in number of dependencies and test maintenance is a net w

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
On 12/29/09 17:00 , Martijn Faassen wrote: > Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> On 12/29/09 16:25 , Martijn Faassen wrote: >>> Earlier this year we decided to refocus our efforts on the ZTK, a >>> leaner, meaner Zope 3 with a different focus, which has code that we >>> really use, no UI, and with cleaner d

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It seems that you want to have a 'ZTK+' which aims to be backwards > compatible with Zope 3 but is somehow not Zope 3 itself. That is > something that not everybody appears to be interested in judging by the > lack of progress on Zope 3 i

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Martijn Faassen
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > On 12/29/09 16:25 , Martijn Faassen wrote: >> Earlier this year we decided to refocus our efforts on the ZTK, a >> leaner, meaner Zope 3 with a different focus, which has code that we >> really use, no UI, and with cleaner dependencies. > > I feel a disconnect here. As I

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
On 12/29/09 16:39 , Wichert Akkerman wrote: > On 12/29/09 16:25 , Martijn Faassen wrote: >> Earlier this year we decided to refocus our efforts on the ZTK, a >> leaner, meaner Zope 3 with a different focus, which has code that we >> really use, no UI, and with cleaner dependencies. > > I feel a dis

Re: [Zope-dev] removing zope.app from the ZTK

2009-12-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
On 12/29/09 16:25 , Martijn Faassen wrote: > Earlier this year we decided to refocus our efforts on the ZTK, a > leaner, meaner Zope 3 with a different focus, which has code that we > really use, no UI, and with cleaner dependencies. I feel a disconnect here. As I see it the ZTK is not a 'leaner,