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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On 9/5/06, Philipp von Weitershausen <philipp at weitershausen.de> wrote:
>> Because they'll go away.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> Because it's clutter. And because there should preferrably be only one
>> way to do things. If we left all the old ways around indefinitely, we'd
>> have code that uses two or more ways of doing the same thing all over
>> the place. It would set bad examples, to begin with.
>>
>> Theuni was recently very confused about the difference between three
>> different APIs that do exactly the same thing (registering a utility).
>> If we had deprecated at least the most confusing one of them (ztapi)
>> already, it would probably have been much clearer.
> 
> I agree. And as long as you move from one version to the next, it's
> not a problems, since we have BBB-code. It does become a problem when
> you skip versions, though. And therefore, we really need to make an
> overview over all API changes from 3.0.0 so you can see what happened
> (this in addition to the more detailed "whats new in vX" pages.
> 
> Maybe somebody can start such a page somewhere, and we can fill it in 
> gradually?

http://kpug.zwiki.org/WhatIsNewInZope33