[Zope3-dev] Zope 3 as a reliable platform?!?

[Christian Theune]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 08:26, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> I think in the future, we should resist minor api tweaks just to  
>> improve spelling slightly.
> 
> I disagree, if the API violates the style guide. The point of the style guide 
> is that we have uniform naming. For example, formlib violates the style guide 
> completely. Unfortunately I did not look closer at it before the inclusion in 
> the core, otherwise I would have strongly argued against it until those 
> violations were fixed.
> 
> I cannot remember things well. So uniform naming is very important to me, 
> because it allows me to remember less. Every time I am starting to write UI 
> code, I have to think: "Okay. I am going to use formlib. Crap, it is 
> different than the rest. I need to use underscores. Okay." At the end of the 
> day, I am ending up opening form.py to look up things; yes, I have not read 
> the README yet.

I agree on the goal, I don't agree on the means. Once we decide it's
stable, it's stable, even if there's a spelling error in it. We have to
apply more careful development before calling it stable then.

Christian

- --
gocept gmbh & co. kg - forsterstraße 29 - 06112 halle/saale - germany
www.gocept.com - ct at gocept.com - phone +49 345 122 9889 7 -
fax +49 345 122 9889 1 - zope and plone consulting and development

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFE/XkvdUt9X/gknwIRAo4bAKC7xbQQnYmDmbzcSCw86C5uIssEbQCdFOtv
PTz72v/6zg8QNFuAL+N1Oj8=
=ArP7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----