[Zope3-dev] Downstream Users making changes.

[Steve Alexander]

>> If you *do* make it easier to modify "closed"
>> software, then you *must* make resolving conflicting changes easier than
>> I foresee us having resources to tackle in the near term.
> 
> I think this will be needed anyway. If an end user of Swishdot 
> customizes a template or script and I, as Swishdot author, also change 
> that template or script for the next release, then they need to know 
> that when they install the new version. It would also be nice if we 
> could provide something to help them resolve the conflicting changes.

They don't need to mess with Swishdot in order to change a template or a 
script. They can do that in their own Zope Package / workspace / 
whatever, and configure things so that their changes override the ones 
caused by installing Swishdot.

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Steve Alexander