[Framework-Team] plone 4 only branches

[David Glick (Plone)]

Yeah, maybe leave the base widgets in plone.app.widgets, and just move 
the Dexerity- and Archetypes- specific code (e.g. widget subclasses) and 
configuration to Plone 5-specific branches of plone.app.dexterity and 
Products.Archetypes.

On 1/25/15 10:00 PM, Nathan Van Gheem wrote:
> We could keep most of plone.app.widgets and just move all override 
> stuff into other packages(at_bbb.py, dx_bbb.py, skins). I'd then also 
> just cut a plone 4 only branch of plone.app.widgets.
>
> Sound better?
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Nathan Van Gheem <nathan at vangheem.us 
> <mailto:nathan at vangheem.us>> wrote:
>
>     ahh cool. I was just reading the docs and didn't notice any
>     specifics about that.
>
>     On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:42 PM, David Glick (Plone)
>     <david.glick at plone.org <mailto:david.glick at plone.org>> wrote:
>
>         On 1/25/15 9:34 PM, Nathan Van Gheem wrote:
>>
>>
>>         On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:33 PM, David Glick (Plone)
>>         <david.glick at plone.org <mailto:david.glick at plone.org>> wrote:
>>
>>             On 1/25/15 9:24 PM, Nathan Van Gheem wrote:
>>
>>                 Hi All,
>>
>>
>>                 I'd like to merge plone.app.widgets into all of other
>>                 plone packages for plone 5.
>>
>>                 In doing so, I need to create some plone 4 only
>>                 branches for plone.app.dexterity and
>>                 plone.app.contenttypes.
>>
>>                 Any objections?
>>
>>
>>             I don't really understand the benefit of spending effort
>>             to move the code. Is there an important reason I'm
>>             forgetting?
>>
>>         plone.app.widgets overrides things in other packages to work
>>         so it's a bit of indirection. I'd like to cut off
>>         plone.app.widgets and whoever wants to maintain it for plone
>>         4 can if they care to.
>
>         Okay. I agree it would be ideal to avoid those overrides,
>         although it maybe should be considered lower priority than
>         fixing bugs in Plone 5.
>
>         It looks like we already have branches for these packages --
>         Plone 4.3 is using the 2.0.x branch of plone.app.dexterity and
>         the 1.1.x branch of plone.app.contenttypes (at least according
>         to sources.cfg in buildout.coredev).
>>
>>
>>                 Also, what does everything think about Archetypes and
>>                 plone.app.widgets. Should that code be merged as well
>>                 or do we just start ignoring Archetypes in plone 5 a bit?
>>
>>             I think if we ignore Archetypes in Plone 5, it will
>>             significantly discourage users with custom AT content
>>             types from upgrading to Plone 5.
>>
>>         Alright, we might need a branch for Archetypes also then :)
>         Also already exists -- Plone 4.3 uses the 1.9.x branch of
>         Products.Archetypes.
>
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