[Zope-dev] Deprecating XML export/import?

[Andreas Jung]

--On 24. März 2006 21:05:12 +0100 Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> 
wrote:


>> ...
>> I propose to deprecate XML export/import for Zope 2.10 and to remove it
>> in  Zope 2.12.
>
> What will remain of Zope in the longer run?
>

The good things that work :-)

In the past with every major release some problems with old and scary 
components came up. In this situation you have basically three options:

  - ignore such problems

  - fix the code

  - rewrite the code

I  have a bad feeling (as release manager) about ignoring problems and 
releasing stuff. Fixing and rewriting code often requires a deep 
understanding of the concepts, the implementation especially if there is no 
documentation and no tests. In many cases Jim is the original author or 
knows at least of the concepts since many of the original Zope developers 
are no longer with ZC or even part of the Zope community. So as a 
consequence in the long term we should get rid of stuff that is either 
broken or considered obsolete by the majority of the developers and for the 
majority of the developers. Figuring out what the majority is in a 
particular case is of course always a problem....

Returning with the discussion to ZClasses (also off-topic in this
XML export/import thread): they blocked the 2.8.0 release for a long time.
If there is an unimportant second-class or third-class component of Zope 
blocking a major release in the future than it should be subject to be 
deprecated (or even removed if necessary).

Andreas





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