+-------[ Tres Seaver ]---------------------- | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | Andrew Milton wrote: | > +-------[ Martijn Pieters ]---------------------- | > | | > | 2009/11/6 Garry Saddington <ga...@schoolteachers.co.uk>: | > | > I've always been amused by this 'outdated' technology thing, with | > | > respect to dtml. Someone had better tell Linus to change his programming | > | > language for the kernel, it's getting a bit old by now. How about c#, | > | > that should do it. | > | | > | It's a question of resources and maintainability. Few people have the | > | time or the inclination to keep DTML going. Ergo, it'll die and we let | > | you know so you can migrate away from it. | > | > More likely, someone spiteful will deliberately break it or simply | > remove it between releases without notice, that seems to be the "Zope | > Way" | | Really? When have we deliberately broken stuff between releases without | notice? We've been pretty damned careful about BBB issues, AFAIK.
I don't really want to fill up an email with a litany of stuff, I'm sure many people have their own pet-peeves about stuff being axed out, but, I'll give you one. PageTemplateFile stops Zope from starting if the file they refer to does not exist, rather than the 'at-access-time' error they used to generate. When you have place holder code and templates in abstract base-classes, this sucks the big one let me tell you. -- Andrew Milton a...@theinternet.com.au _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
