[Zope3-dev] Re: What is BBB?

Mon Jan 24 08:05:22 EST 2005

Chris Withers wrote:
>> Big Brother Brazil? *g*

Bank Busters Berlin?

>> It's for backwards compatibility. About the same usage as XXX, an
>> easy string to grep for.
> 
> Okay, but backwards compatability with what?

Former versions of Zope X3, meaning currently X3.0. That way the stuff 
that gets written for X3.0 will definitely run on X3.1 but we also make 
sure that we get rid of deprecated APIs at some point (unlike in Zope 2 
which carries about every little piece of junk that even Principia had).

Philipp