On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:46:51PM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: | >Most of the time, this is the same people who can't update their | >products, so if they *do* want a new zope, they will need to get a new | >product as well. I think its safe to make that assumption. | | I don't follow this. What do you mean be "Can't update their products"? | Are you saying that to upgrade to a new Zope, they should actually have to | replace the products they are using with different ones?
I meant, people that 'are afraid' of updating their existing products to new versions, or just can't because they would break compatibility. | >Considering that 2.8 may be at least 6-8 months in the future (is that | >a nice assumption?) | | I hope that 2.8 will come out much sooner than that. I hope to see 2.9 | in that timeframe. Remember that 2.8 will have just nsEC, ZODB 3.3, and | any other stuff that's piled up in the interim. :) Yay! Thats very nice to hear. | >Now *that* is a good point for going with the new algorithm. We don't | >want to have even another round later on to make it compatible with | >Zope 3. If we could do it at the same time it would be a | >bonus. Though, from what I understand, your custom algorithm would | >provide that. | | Huh? That doesn't make sense. As long as people use EC, they will use | whatever algorthm we pick now. If people use ExtensionClasses in Zope 3, | then those classes will use the algorithm we pick now. People would | switch to the new algorithm when they convert (or mor likely rewrite) | their products to be ExtensionClass-less and Zope3-ish. If they | make their products Zope 3-ish, the lookup algorithm won't matter much. Ok, I got it wrong then. Sorry. -- Sidnei da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dreamcatching :: making your dreams come true http://awkly.org The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output. _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )