[Zope3-dev] Re: What is BBB?

[Jim Fulton]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 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).

Important parts of Zope2 have roots that go way back beyond
Principia. :/  (There's no reason that many of these cannot
be cleaned up.)

Jim

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