Tim Cook wrote: > Thanks Dieter, > > On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 19:41 +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote: >> I often approach situations like this with so called "Monkey Patches": >> I replace or enhance classes or methods during startup (triggered >> by some startup event). >> >> This may not be optimal but allows me to solve my problems without >> tight coupling with the core developpers who usually do not have >> my problems and tend not see them as very high priority. > > I am starting to see why other Python developers aren't too interested > in Zope. Despite the awesome power of the architecture. > > I've been poking around and using and supporting Zope since 1999. But > because I am not an expert programmer (my skills are in another field) > and because I do not know Zope inside and out. I am being chastised for > not supplying my own complete fixes to the developers or at least being > able to cover for their mistakes inside my application. Silly me. > Working in open source for 14 years and I had no idea it worked like > this. > > I'm sure glad that we do not run openEHR like that.
This seems a little unfair. By my count you have had five responses, four of which have been friendly and helpful. Don't be discouraged by the occasional dragon! Laurence _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
