[Zope3-dev] Zope X3.1? Ane rough feeling for release date?

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 10 January 2005 09:06, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/RoadMap
>
> Well, December 2004 has come and passed. ;) Any ideas on how far away
> X3.1 could be?
>
> I'm just inquiring because I'm doing some work on Five, and I would like
> to move that work up past X3.0, because of some changes in Zope3 making
> that work much easier. It would feel MUCH nicer to do so if I knew X3.1
> was coming soon.

It iwll take a while. There is currently no rush. I have been working on some 
major, major changes that will take some time to stabilize and ensure BBB 
for. I think it will not happen in the next 3 months (for the final release).

Here are some of the highlights though:

- Simplification of Component Architecture; this includes the removal of 
services, the concrete implementation of views, simplification of the 
registration framework, restructuring of persistent modules, ... Note that 
the pattern "view" will not go way, since a view is simply a multiadapter 
whose last object is a request. I think another pattern that emerges is that 
unnamed utilities will have the same meaning as services. 

- The changes above will cause a restructuring of the site managament UI as 
well.

- New pluggable authentication utility. This is a reinterpretation of the new 
Zope 2 PAS. Several plugins have been written for it already.

- New workflow implementation. Jim is working on an activity-based workflow 
system that supports XPDL.

- New Source frameowrk. Sources will eventually replace vocabularies as they 
separate data and presentation better.

Did I forget anything?

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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