[Zope3-dev] Package is the wrong name for the things I called"Zope Packages".

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:58:26 -0500


Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Opening/closing is meant to solve the same problem that CMF skins were 
> designed to solve: it's hard to distinguish local changes from external 
> software changes.  CMF skins solved it by putting external software in a 
> place that users can't change through the ZMI.  It worked, but it was 
> draconian and strongly discouraged TTW development.  Opening/closing 
> turns the decision of whether you are an end user or a developer into a 
> simple state change.  You choose to develop on the filesystem, but 
> you're no longer forced to.

Oops, I meant to say "You *can* choose to develop"...

Shane