I have a couple questions about the current game plan for Zope development that I was unable to answer for myself by searching through mailing list archives and the <a href="http://zope.org">zope.org</a> website. I hope my inability to answer them is not merely a symptom of poor search term choices, and I hope someone can answer them for me.
<br><br>I've posted a couple times before (a long time ago) about the large web application I work on; it's many hundreds of KLOC and an unfortunately large percentage of it is DTML. It's still more or less in that state; the realities of being a for-profit business in a rapidly evolving marketplace permit very little time for maintenance or aggressive refactoring of the application. That's the background for my questions; I'm trying to figure out how loudly I can shout "Impending doom!" to upper management without endangering my credibility.
<br><br>1. Last time I talked to anyone from Zope Corp, the plan was to quiesce Zope 2 in favor of Zope 3. At that time, I think I remember people saying 2.9 would be the last in the Zope 2 series. Now there's a 2.10, so clearly it wasn't. How long does a business like mine have before there is no clear upgrade path in the Zope 2 series? Is
2.10 now the final Zope 2 release, or will there be a 2.11 and 2.12?<br><br>2. Whenever someone asks about moving an existing application from Zope 2 to Zope 3, there's a round of flip "oh you'll hafta start over" responses. I understand that the two architectures are fundamentally different, and that I'll need to rebuild my object database, etcetera. Am I also correct in believing that all products must be completely rewritten, and that DTML is no longer a supported templating language? Has the users/roles/permissions security structure disappeared or been supplanted? I am trying to ascertain at a glance how much we will need to rebuild for ourselves; if it's enough then the problems we have had with Zope (poor scaling, poor integration with source control) may outweigh the advantages of remaining on the platform.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>--G.<br>