[Grok-dev] Re: on the name "Grok"

Martijn Faassen faassen at startifact.com
Mon Apr 28 09:32:48 EDT 2008


Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 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 ?

Yeah, 'megrok' is for grok extensions, so that could work. I suspect 
though that grokkers could just be folded into the appropriate libraries 
instead.

Regards,

Martijn



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