[Zope-dev] Re: Re: Future of ZClasses

[Rocky Burt]

On Wed, 2006-04-10 at 10:26 +0200, Patrick Gerken wrote:
> Notice especially how they mention that a deprecation phase can be days.
> So for me it looks we are actually a bit ahead of the competition, but
> maybe somebody can correct me.

[snip...]

> I think we use Interfaces in Z3 to "publish" Methods. So "maybe" it
> makes sense to have a smaller core API with longer deprecation
> periods, so that standard projects can try to rely on core API with
> long deprecation phase and extender would use the one year deprecation
> phase. But as I said earlier, I think we are quite ahead already.

[snip...]

> But it is not fair to compare the stability of a programming language
> standard modules API with a application framework api. But maybe I am
> not good in searching and somebody points me to the well thought out
> JBoss or Websphere deprecation policy


Thanks for this insight.  As a proponent of sensible deprecation it's
nice to have some evidence rather than simply sputtering, "but but... we
gotta be able to change stuff!"

:)

- Rocky

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