[Zope-dev] Re: Zope and zope

[yuppie]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
>  > I think the breakage, although literally "incalculable" (as is
> 
>> every change to Zope 2, given that it has no canonical API), would be
>> manageable given enough lead time.  In fact, if we did change the module
>> name, we could just leave a "bruce" package in place that, when imported,
>> raised a "ObsoleteError" with a descriptive message.
> 
> 
> But I think that this is a big problem. Backward compatibility for Z2 *is*
> important.  It's too bad that lots of test files have to import Zope. Sigh.

Why is that a *big* problem?

- It's not nice to break tests, but that doesn't necessarily mean the 
products are broken.

- AFAICT many products need some polishing and a new release for Zope 
2.8 anyway.


Cheers, Yuppie