Grok component reuse in the Zope 3 world (was Re: [Grok-dev] Re: ANN: megrok.quarry)

[Gary Poster]

On May 5, 2007, at 5:43 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

> On 5/4/07, Gary Poster <gary at zope.com> wrote:
>> There actually was a reason why we wanted something like zcml--
>> something *not* in the Python file.  The reason was that we wanted to
>> make it possible to reuse Python without being forced to reuse
>> configuration.  We wanted components.
>
> You mean that because the connection together of the components are in
> zcml, you can use a module outside of zope, because the connections
> will be ignored since they are in a separate file that will be
> ignored?
>
> (Just trying to understand exactly what you are saying here).

replace "outside of zope" with something like "outside of the current  
expected usage" (i.e., I'm making your statement more general so it  
can be "outside of the zc, or lovely, or schooltool, or XXX projects  
that created it" and so on) then, at least on a quick skim, that  
sounds about right.

To be clear, the win of zcml, as I'm trying to present it, can be  
done without zcml--I gave the example of a separate Python file with  
a grok-like approach, for instance, as one of the possible  
replacements--but I'm arguing that having it done with Python  
alongside the Python of your implementation makes it more likely to  
break this win.

Also to be clear, there's obviously a point where the non-grok and  
the grok world agree in direction, for instance with the @implementer  
and @adapter decorators.

Gary