On 2/9/06, Edward Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > place to be. However, non-Zope development groups on campus have asked > me: So, what will we do when another version of Zope comes along that > will completely break backwards compatibility again?
Nothing. Why would yo do anything? Zope3 will not stop working if Zope4 comes along, just as Zope2 has not stopped working when Zope3 came along. > Certainly this discussion has to have taken place somewhere before. Oh yeah. Hundreds of thousands of times with different software. It's a variation of the "forward compatibility"-discussion, but forward compatibility is a myth. Nobody can predict the future. Will the bright minds behind Zope 3 come up with something even brighter and make something completely new? Possibly, we don't know. Or some Ruby guys will come up with it and everybody will shift to a new completely incompatible version of Ruby on Rails. Or Microsoft can suddenly decide to go open source. NOBODY KNOWS. All we can do is guess, and most of our guesses wll be wrong. Therefore: You do today, what works today, and worry about tomorrow when it happens. For example, what did you do in 1998, and did you in 1998 know what you would be doing today? If you in 1998 knew that you were going to have a Zope 2 based website, then they have a point. If you don't, then they don't have a point. :-) Now, how you break that information to management, is nothing I can help you with. ;-) > We have as much invested in ColdFusion > as we do Zope 2 and there is a perceptual issue here I'm not certain > how to correct via education. Ah! But unlike Zope2 or Zope3, ColdFusion *will* break when incompatible versions come out, because it's closed source, so you can't fix the bugs. With open source you can. If the bug is too complex, yo can pay somebody to fix it for with. With ColdFusion, you're up shit creek without a debugger. > Clearly Zope 3 does so much more out of > the box to support the standards based semantically driven web site we > are saying we want in our needs assessment documents, but it is a hard > thing to sell. I'm the worst salesman in the world. All I can do is shoot other peoples arguments to pieces. ;-) > Second, the existence of Zope 3 has completely shot any support for > Zope 2 continuation out of the water in our environment. Is this fair, > or is there life left to the Zope 2 tree we've developed some > experience in? Should I be considering pitching a Zope 2 solution > instead? There is definitely life in Zope2 left. It will without any doubt be supported and developed for years to come, although the development is now mostly on consolidation with Zope3. -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management http://www.cps-project.org/ _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
