[Zope3-dev] RFC: move 'App' out of 'Zope'

[Stephan Richter]

On Sunday 22 December 2002 14:37, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> Per my other post on this subject, may I suggest that even if we stay with
> a nested package for what is now Zope.App, can we choose a different name
> for it, and stop talking about it as the "application framework"?
>
> As an app developer who works mainly with those pesky "reusable packages",
> I think of *them* as the "application framework".  Zope.App, IMO, is a
> content management application *built on* the "application framework"
> that's outside of Zope.App.  "zope.cm" or "zope.content" or "zope.cmf"
> would make a *lot* more sense to me.

I have to protest against this! :-) For me Zope was never *not only* a Content 
Management System. In fact, I have written a lot of software in Zope that has 
nothing to do with Content Management. 

Also, it took me a lot of effort to demystify at conferences the idea in 
people thinking it was only a CMS. If Zope 3 is taking a atep back and calls 
itself a CMS Framework, then I would find this very disappointing... 

I see Zope as either a nice framework for any sort of internet application or 
as the glue that can bring/connect many internet applications together.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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