PythonLabs Team Moves to Digital Creations

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Tom wrote:

> Some of this sounds good, but some is a bit scary.  In particular:
> 
> > We will be spending part of our
> > time on core Python development (including Jython and Mailman) and
> > part of our time on Python infrastructure improvements that also
> > benefit Zope.
> 
> If Python itself is good, and is being actively developed, then other
> companies and individuals will develop 'infrastructure'.  For example, it
> appears that WingIDE, Boa, and ActiveState's Visual Python IDE will all be
> ready in the near future - this is evidence of the momentum that Python
> currently has.
> 
> However, if work on the core of Python were to slow, or if it's direction
> was guided by the interests of one particularly product (ie. Zope), then
> this might discourage the development of all other 'infrastructure'
> projects, and would hurt the Python community.

Historically, Python core *was* influenced by Zope --- to good effect.
An example which comes to mind immediately is the whole pickling
infrastructure. Meta-classes is another thing which was strongly
influenced by Jim F, because he wanted to use them in Zope. 
In short, I fail to see anything Zope would want Python to be which is not
in the best interests of Python. One thing I hope is that because a lot of
Zope is written in Python, a no-brainer optimization for Zope is a good
optimizing byte-compiler for Python. 

well,-a-man-can-dream-can't-he-ly y'rs, Z.

Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Digital Creation, and I do not
know any details about their development efforts or their business plans.