[Grok-dev] megrok.chameleon, next steps

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

Hi,

Ok, it is clear we need to work on megrok.chameleon. I think these are 
the issues brought up by people in the previous discussion-thread:

1) the dependency on z3c.pt is perceived as unwanted by some people, but 
at the same time Uli explains[1] why it was added back as dependency.

We need to decide to either a) get rid of z3c.pt and move the necessary 
glue code into megrok.chameleon, or b) to trust the current 
z3c.pt-rewrite and its maintainer and use it. Votes please.

2) there's an issue for switching the auto-reloading of changed template 
files on and off. I understand Chameleon does this by looking for 
environment variables, however glue layers can signal their own idea of 
auto-reloading when pagetemplate file objects are instantiated, 
overriding the environment variable.

So, again, we need to decide: a) we use an environment variable specific 
to chameleon, or b) we provide in the megrok.chameleon glue layer a 
different way to signal auto-reloading that then can be reused by other 
component that want different behaviour in development mode[2]. Votes 
please.

regards, jw

[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.grok.devel/11086
[2] for example by making use of Grok's (Zope's) devmode flag.