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

[eric casteleijn]

> I think the mental work is minimal. Nobody objected when Five (due to a 
> technicality) had to introduce a BrowserView base class. five.grok is in 
> a way a special animal because it brings over some commonly used 
> components to Zope 2. I still don't think that bringing over all of Grok 
> is an important or even sensible goal. Therefore, five.grok will always 
> be just a subset. And to be honest, probably a small subset (I suspect 
> the future plone.grok will most likely be the rising star of Grok 
> technology on Zope 2). 

I'm mostly +0 on naming, although I do see a small advantage to having 
(some subset of) grok examples and documentation make sense for grok on 
zope 2.

I *do* think there is a big use case for grok technology on Zope 2 aside 
from building new applications. Building Extensions for Plone and Silva 
and other Zope 2 based frameworks could become a lot easier if we had 
groklike ways to remove boiler plate. This is the exact same use that 
Five had when we started using it in Silva, making it much easier to 
override small parts of Silva in an extension, and I think Grok will be 
an excellent way to make more boilerplate go away.

I really wish we had the luxury to move away from the legacy platform, 
but it's not going to happen soon, and realistically, maybe never. No 
customer will pay for this, and the Silva community unfortunately isn't 
as big as Plone's so it's much harder to absorb such a huge investment.

I sincerely hope though, that having a forward oriented way of extending 
Silva and Plone on Zope 2 will generate enthousiasm for Grok the web 
platform, and it would be great if the skills people acquire would be 
useful when they start to use grok itself, (or hell freezes over and we 
do manage to port to Zope 3 some happy day ;)

-- 
- eric casteleijn
http://thisfred.blogspot.com

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