[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 learning curve?

[Chris Withers]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> 
> Well, the concepts are much easier. That is certainly correct.

Indeed, that has been my experience so far, although I haven't seen much of Zope
3...

> BUT, to develop the service called IRDBConnections and all the stuff around
> for Zope 3 in the first place requires a fairly sophisticated understanding
> of the system itself.

*shrugs* Just a different mindset. To do an interface, all you have to do is
abstract away from implementations and define the services that a given piece of
functionality would need to supply, regardless of the implementation...

> Conclusion: Once Zope3 is done things will be easy. But since Zope3 will be
> mostly implemented by the community, there is a need for people to write
> Zope3 in the first place. And that will require some dedication. :-)

Well, I think once the interfaces are done (and they shouldn't be too hard) then
it doesn't really matter. We'll see simple implementations first with more
robust and scalable implementations later. That said, ZC may have trouble
outsourcing the whole development burden to the community; if that happens, Zope
will either die as people will move to other, better supported, tool sets or
people will stick with Zope 2 until something better comes along...

Open Source is a land of fly by night, one shot, cowboy developers not
architects and long term devotees...

cheers,

Chris