[Framework-Team] Re: Viewlets

[Martin Aspeli]

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:40:48 +0100, whit  
<d.w.morriss at gmail.com> wrote:

> considering we are jumping from 2.5 -> 3.0, we have some play.
>
> there is no reason that there can't be releases in between 2.5 and 3.0.
> Let's use those numbers to get ourselves back in sync with the rest of
> our stack.  depending on when thing fall, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, and 2.9 could
> serve as a way to ease onto CMF2.0, zope 2.10, AT1.4 & 1.5, Five 1.5,
> etc.

I'm not sure where this came from... 3.0 has a release date and a plan  
that doesn't allow for a four more releases to be completed and tested in  
time. I think it's extemely unlikely we'll see a Plone 2.6 or a Plone 2.7  
unless someone seriously commits to doing the needed integration work and  
manages that release. Each release cycle brings with it serious overheads  
of betas, rcs, bug days, migration work etc.

Which brings us back to the original point. If Plone 3.0 is supposed to be  
an end-user experience focused release, part of that is to make sure that  
third party products can integrate well into the Plone UI without having  
to override major templates like global_contentmenu or, worse,  
main_template. I *want* to see  
classification/taxonomy/ontology/tagging/whatever in a way that's generic  
and usable, and I want to make it possible for products like LinguaPlone  
and CMFEditions to inject things into the Plone UI without that having to  
be un ugly hack.

I'm happy to support Zope 2.10 only in 3.0 if that's stable and out the  
door, though (not that it's my call).

For our current use cases, the main use of viewlets will be to render them  
- the update phases are probably less interesting for now. We *may* be  
able to support a trade-off where we use the viewlet API but support only  
rendering. I'm not sure yet, though - we really need to speak to someone  
(Stephan Richter?) who knows how viewlets work a little better.

Martin

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