On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Roger Ineichen<dev@projekt01.ch> wrote: ...

I think XML-RPC just belongs to an own package e.g. zope.xmlrpc. It doesn't make sense to have XML-RPC in a package other then an own.

Agreed, although moving it out would introduce a backward incompatibility. Maybe there's a way to finesse this or maybe we just bump the major version # of zope.publisher. BTW, I don't think the approach we took (I helped :) for XMLRPC turned out well. Given ajax and json, I don't really care about xmlrpc any more, but if I did, I'd want to take a much lighter weight and more localized approach.

If we move the XML-RPC part out of other packages, then we have the question should the zope.xmlrpc package depend on IContainer? Probably not and the new zope.xmlrpc package should use your suggested conditional configuration.

Yup

Such an own zope.xmlrpc package whould depend on the publisher as much as the XML-RPC implementation does. This allows to use a custom XML-RPC implementation based on something else then the publisher concept. (custom xmlrpc package)

Does this make sense?

Yes, except that I don't really care about xmlrpc and If I did, I'd take a different approach. Jim -- Jim Fulton