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- --On 22. Dezember 2006 15:55:48 -0500 Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It has 2 major disadvantages: > > - It is ours. :) We are bearing the burden of maintaining it. > This is offset by the fact that it hasn't required much maintenance. ..which is actually a sign of "it-just-works". > > - It is largely undocumented. This makes it much harder to use than it > needs to be. It also makes it under appreciated. I made a start at > fixing this yesterday: > > http://svn.zope.org/zdaemon/trunk/src/zdaemon/README.txt?view=auto > > It isn't very hard to use, so documenting it isn't really all that hard. ...which is almost True for a lot of parts of the Zope 2 core :-) > > I wonder if we should be using some other daemon manager. Arguably, > there's > no reason for the Zope project to maintain one if something is available > that does what we need. I think (meanwhile) that this is not enough to justify the replacement of a component. Replacing a Zope 2 component always caused some pain. So as a rule for replacing something in the Zope 2 core we consider those rules: - the replacement solves existing functional problems - it adds major functional benefits - no issues with backward compatibility, well tested etc. For the Zope 2 core we must be very careful about changing stuff. Stability and backward compatibility are much, much more important for the end-user than satisfying our replace-all-with-something-better drive :-) Don't get me wrong but we've done some minor mistakes with replacing stuff in the past and because of that I became a bit conservative about changing things. Of course I am only speaking for the Zope 2 core. Andreas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFjLuICJIWIbr9KYwRAgsRAJ9p3Td7KOmKzHzLn89nnQpSdYMtnwCcDyDR iKgZV5H76vnCpjqO3Mccrv4= =DYYW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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 )