Python Secret Weblog for 2008 January

Mon Jan 28 2008 15:21 Snowsprint report:

This year, like last year, will be a year of Grok for me. Grok has given me real hope that Zope technologies can compete, and compete well, with other Python-based web frameworks. In the Zope community, as well as outside it, we are well aware of Zope's flaws, both technology and community-wise. We sometimes think too little about Zope's assets, which are huge. Zope 3 is great technology, years ahead of the competition in the pluggability department, and Zope's community is well established. One of those things in the Zope community is the yearly Snow Sprint. This year was the first time I attended.

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(11) Tue Jan 29 2008 15:02 On Revolution and Evolution:

Malthe started an interesting discussion on the possibility to rewrite Plone from scratch. I have some thoughts on the topic of rewrites, evolution and revolution. Here are some of my scattered observations.

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(6) Wed Jan 30 2008 19:56 Allowing Zope 2 applications to contain Zope 3 content:

Five, the system to use Zope 3 within Zope 2, is a pain sometimes. Five is full of hacks to ensure backwards compatibility with Zope 2. This stops developers from using full-fledged Zope 3 strategies in places.

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