[Zope-PTK] Portal content wherever you want it

[Steve Alexander]

Kevin Dangoor wrote:
> 
> [Even scarier: I'm pretending to understand Python-based Products,
> ZPatterns, *and* the PTK :) ]
> 
> I would do this a little differently.
> 
> We make a Portal Specialist that will provide all sorts of nice Portal-y
> features. It will accept PortalContent as plug-ins (much the same way that
> LoginManager accepts UserSources as plug-ins). So, you just plug in any
> types of Portal content you want to be available in that Portal. Within each
> of these plug-ins, you'll be able to define the display methods for that
> type of content. I'm not sure about the icons, because there might be some
> other hooks for that. We can probably assume that that will be changeable as
> well.

I like this idea, although this does mean refactoring how the PTK works
quite a bit.
That's not necessarily a bad thing though, as more of the work gets done
by ZPatterns, and PTK becomes simpler.


> I believe ZPatterns 0.4.0 will allow RackMountables to show up anywhere you
> want them, and will refer back to their DataManager for various things,
> including Indexing. Based on Phillip's message from this morning, that means
> you can put the PortalContent anywhere in your ZODB, and it will follow the
> review policies that you have set up. These would be pluggable.

Ok. But I guess the outline you gave for displaying PortalContent,
above, would work with the current ZPatterns too. we'd just be
constrained to use Racks more.

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Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
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