[Zope3-dev] Twisted Publisher and Zope 2

[Jim Fulton]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 7. Dezember 2005 10:29:16 -0500 Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
> 
>> We need it.  We also need a single publisher.  We are (almost) at the
>> beginning
>> of a new development cycle.  We should be ambitios and try to make it
>> possible to use the Zope 3 puublisher in Zope 2 *and* provide backward
>> compatibility.
> 
> 
> Backward compatibility must be the major goal for porting Z3 parts to Z2.

Agreed.

> In the future will have two major release each year. People deploying 
> enterprise-level applications on top of Zope 2 must have the feeling 
> that their application will run in one or two yrs when switching to a 
> newer Zope version without major problems.

We may even want to lengthen the deprecation period. Perhaps we should
even switch to time-based deprecation. This would be especially helpful
for components that appear in multiple distributions, for which release
numbers aren't meaningful.

Jim

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