[Zope3-dev] RE: [SpringCleaning07]

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi Christian, Baiju

> Subject: Re: [Zope3-dev] RE: [SpringCleaning07]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Roger Ineichen wrote:
> > What does removal mean?
> 
> We have two possible situations for a package that I'd like 
> to consider during spring cleaning:
> 
> 1. packages that are in the src/ tree but are not distributed 
> with Zope
>    releases
> 
>    The question is whether those packages are maintained and there is
>    interest to keep them around. If they are not maintained 
> and there is
>    no interest from anybody, we can either put them into a retirement
>    section or just delete them.
> 
> 2. packages that are distributed but untested/unmaintained/unused
> 
>    Those should eventually not be distributed anymore and 
> maybe have the
>    same destiny as packages from 1. I try to support Jims vision of a
>    smaller "core" system with this.
> 
>    However, those packages that are currently distributed need to be
>    considered very carefully and require a deprecation cycle. As
>    deprecating things that are used by other people is bad IMHO, we
>    should be very sure that we don't annoy people by doing so.

+1

I'm fine with that as long as the zope.app.file is contained in the
distribution.

Regards
Roger Ineichen
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