[Grok-dev] on the name "Grok"

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Mon Apr 28 09:05:47 EDT 2008


Previously Martijn Faassen wrote:
> There is also 'plone.grok'. This provides plone-specific components and 
> grokkers, dealing with Plone specific concepts such as portlets. In 
> order to use it, you import from it. I think this name is very *wrong*. 
> It leads people to believe that these base classes exist in Grok, which 
> they do not. It's not implementing standard Grok concepts at all, but 
> extends Grok. It therefore the namespace shouldn't have 'grok' in it. 
> Ideally it's just something that is folded into existing Plone packages.

megrok.plone ?

Wichert.

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