[z3-five] Re: Using Zope2 page templates with Five

[Fred Drake]

I just found out about this discussion today, so hopefully I'm not
chiming in too late.  I've also not touched Zope 2 for a while, so
I've forgotten a lot about Zope 2 page templates.

In the long run (which has been called Zope 2.9 in the past), there
will be only one page template implementation.  This will be the one
from Zope 3.  The modules in the Zope 2 package tree will provide a
very thin backward compatibility layer.

There is an interoperability issue here in that the base set of names
provided by the Zope 2 and Zope 3 versions of page templates doesn't
exactly match; the compatibility layer will need to make sure the
right set of names is provided for Zope 2.

I've just heard that there are some problems with using macros across
versions; I don't know if that's any more than the issue of the base
set of names.  If there's anything else, I'd like to get some details
from someone who knows.

Are there any other barriers to interoperability between the two versions?


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fdrake at gmail.com>
Zope Corporation