[Zope-CMF] Revisions & CMF

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:04 AM 5/30/01 -0400, Shane Hathaway wrote:

>Here is a crude metaphor.  The CMF is a large star with enough mass to
>draw in everything near it.  Like any software, as soon as you add
>partial support for some new feature, gravity pulls until the rest of
>the feature is there.  If you don't want to turn your software into a
>red giant or a black hole you have to carefully put in the *right*
>things and enforce a certain level of separation from other software
>(thus establishing orbit! ;-) )

[applause]  That's a wonderful analogy, and an excellent way of thinking 
about feature creep control in general.  :)