[Zope-CMF] Re: RFC: backporting including python-package-product support to support Zope 2.8

[Rob Miller]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> The broader point is we wouldn't really need it yet - we don't have any  
> code that actually uses these new features, and plenty of code that may 
> be  broken by changes in CMF 2. All in good time - of course, if you 
> want to  help work on CMF 2.0 compatability for the 2.5 branch when it 
> starts  stabilising, all the more chance we can get it into Plone 3.0 :)

i have every intent of pushing for Plone 3.0 to require CMF 2.X (for 
some reasonable value of X).  in fact, my first efforts towards 
GenericSetup and Plone integration were based on running Plone against 
the CMF trunk.  it was then (correctly, IMO) decided that CMF 2.0 would 
cause too much breakage to 3rd party Plone products, when the last major 
release of Plone had already required most products to be rewritten.

one of the biggest motivators for creating CMF 1.6 and using it for the 
basis of Plone 2.5 was so that it would be easier to do parallel Plone 
development against CMF 2.0 without having to maintain separately two 
entirely different site creation infrastructures.

-r