[Zope-dev] Future of ZClasses

[Jonathan]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Andreas Jung" <lists at zopyx.com>
>To: "Jonathan" <dev101 at magma.ca>; <zope-dev at zope.org>
>> I found a thread (from March 2006) discussing the future of zclasses, but
>> i could not determine if a 'final' decision had been made.
>>
>> According to Changes.txt for Zope 2.10.0:
>>
>> "ZClasses are deprecated and should no longer be used. In addition any
>> code related to the ZClasses (re)distribution mechanism is removed."
>
>Right. And nobody stepped in to work on an alternative solution. Another
>indication that the core developers don't care much about ZClasses.
>
>> Does this mean that any application which incorporates zclasses will
>> break if upgraded to zope 2.10.x?
>
>Likely.

Oh crap...

>>
>> The reason i ask is that i have a huge legacy system (zope 2.6) that is
>> about to be upgraded to a more current version of zope, and i am
>> wondering if this is the time to replace the zclass utilization (a
>> seriously non-trivial task!).
>>
>
>It's definitely time to work on a replacement.

Much louder  'oh crap...'

Thanks for the insight, i now know what i am going to be doing for the 
foreseeable future ;-(

... i don't suppose anyone has an 'automagical' utility that instantly 
transforms zclasses to python classes, and then changes all dtml/external 
method usage do they?   ...didn't think so ;-)

Thanks again,


Jonathan