[Zope] How about removing broken things like Confera and ZDiscussions?

Cary O'Brien cobrien@Radix.Net
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:32:14 -0400 (EDT)


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>    There is a ZDiscussions that works. It is called ZUBB.
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>    http://www.zope.org/Members/BwanaZulia/ZUBB
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>    But, I agree, old product that have been left behind (the old version of
>    ZDiscussions/Confera) should be marked and or archived.
> 
>    J
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> Might be better to have a more formal declaration of the dependencies
> on versions of products relied upon at the download pages -- for some
> products this has become a tricky and madning process to make sure all
> the versions are correct for a product to run. This is natural in the
> progress of Zope and Zope products and will become even more and issue
> as Zope matures even further. This can be formalized. I do like the
> way SGI does some of this.
> 

Bangs head.  Doh!

Why the heck don't products have explicit requirements the "package require n.m" 
in TCL. Heck, python ought to.

	Import Fred(1.2) from Bedrock

Or something like that.

-- cary