Re: Zope3 name

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Godefroid Chapelle wrote:

> seb bacon wrote:
> > 
> > I like Joseph's suggestion: the thing we're working on now (sometimes 
> > called Zope 3.x) could ultimately be called Zope Component Server 1.0. 
> > The thing with backwards compatibility with Zope 2.x could be called 
> > Zope 3.0.

Yikes.

What about the fact that Zope 3.0 will be backwards compatable with
ZCS 1.0?  In fact, it will be much more like ZCS 1.0 than it will be
like Zope 2.0 - despite the fact that it's named _completely
differently_, in numbering and words, from ZCS 1.0?  I think this
would be extremely and unforgivably misleading.

Hmm.  That's a characterization i often connect with the worst kind of
advertising/marketing missteps.  I don't think or mean to say that
anyone here had the intention to be misleading, but i think it would
be.  And i think it's a sign that the appearance (name) is being
given, just a tad, too much consideration - exceeding consideration
for, and losing touch with, the basic technical reality.

Maybe it should be "Zope X3", then "Zope 3" when backwards compat is
achieved.  (This appeals to the naming scheme that the US military
used for experimental planes and rockets, most famous one i remember
the X-15 rocket plane.)

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Ken
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