[ZPatterns] Newbie asks about ZPatterns reliability. Was: Why is class_default_for_ method unbound?

[Steve Spicklemire]

Hi Gary,

	I think that ZPatterns is wonderful, and highly useful technology. 
I would not hesitate to build apps using it (in fact I do!). The 
"problems" mostly revolve around keeping the sources up to date with a 
rapidly evolving "Zope". I think the official (i.e., CVS) ZPatterns is 
not currently up to date with Zope 2.4. Steve Alexander has done a 
wonderful job of finding bugs and fixing them (and releasing the 
fixes!). I think you should at least *look* at ZPatterns and see if it's 
features would be helpful in your application. If there are bugs in 
SteveA's patches, it will only help t find them sooner if more people 
exercise the code. Once found, most of these bugs are fixed in hours, if 
not days.

Just my opinion... of course. ;-)

-steve

On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 01:35 PM, Gary Poster wrote:

> OK, forgive a de-lurking newbie who is trying to get up to speed on
> ZPatterns.  The exchange below suddenly made me very nervous.  While
> ZPatterns is, after all, listed as "Development" software, I had hoped 
> that
> it might be somewhat reasonable to base a production system on it...with
> appropriate testing, yes, but with some confidence in ZPatterns' 
> stability.
> This exchange seemed to call my hope into question.
>
> Would anyone care to give me a feeling for where they think this product
> stands?  Should I base my app on it, or look elsewhere for now, keeping 
> an
> eye on later ZPatterns releases?
>
> Sorry for the newbie question. :-{  Thank you for what looks to be a 
> very
> elegant and well-thought-out approach, be it usable now or only in the
> future!
>
> Thanks
>
> Gary
>