Andreas Jung wrote: > Hi, > > for next release we plan to replace several parts with the corresponding > components from Zope 3 (e.g. ZPT´). Philipp is working on a proposal on > that issue. In addition I would like to get rid of some old stuff that > is no longer maintained and buggy: > > > - ZopeTutorial (could be ripped off without implications and made available > for download on zope.org)
+1 Or write a new tutorial. > - HelpSys - from a programmers view pretty much useless and not very > helpful. I consider to replace it with something more useful (not sure > we can re-use apidoc from Zope 3 in some way, perhaps the inclusion > of Dieter's Docfinder might be more useful for programmers) +1 Never used it. > - Gadfly(DA) - do we really need this? We discussed this already. In my > opinion the purpose of Gadfly is only educational but nothing that one > really needs or uses for production. It could be removed and made > available for download on zope.org. -1 Gadfly is nice to experiment with SQL programming, you can even run small SQL apps (guestbook, small forum, etc.) with it. And it's easy to replace is with a more serious replacement afterwards. I've used it whenever I needed SQL support in Zope, either in development mode or in "hack something quickly" mode. > And my favourite enemy in Zope: ZClasses :-) I would like to mark them > _clearly_ as an obsolete feature (DeprecationWarning, Warnings in the > ZMI and the Zope Book). I _don't_ propose to remove them at some point > but ppl should be aware that they are using one of the most-scary > components in Zope (please no further discussion about the pros and cons > of ZClasses..this discussion took already place already a bunch of times > on the list). +1 S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server: http://www.nuxeo.com/cps Gestion de contenu web / portail collaboratif / groupware / open source! _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )