[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