[Zope-CMF] Re: RFC: Flon functionality ported to CMF?

[yuppie]

Hi!


whit wrote:
>> Yes.  The current roadmap[1] calls for updating the CMF itself to
>> exploit Z3-via-Five in a number of ways;  such a UI would be very useful
>> in that effort.  It might even be useful *without* the catalog stuff
>> (but I haven't looked at what the exact dependencies are).
> 
> 
> A primary reason for the plip was the exposure of apidoc within Plone.
> 
> Also, iirc, yuppie was talking about creating a more general framework 
> for using stub interfaces, and it would be nice to roll all of these 
> efforts into one at the lowest possible level.

Right. I have a working prototype that adds an 'interfaces' tab to most 
Zope objects in the ZMI. But finishing this has low priority for me and 
there are still some unresolved issues:


1.) It depends on zope.app.introspector, but the introspector is 
deprecated in Zope 3.1.

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2005-March/013763.html says 
marker interfaces are YAGNI. Looks like this should be discussed with 
Zope 3 people.


2.) All empty interfaces are addable as marker interfaces, but there are 
many empty interfaces that aren't useful as marker interfaces.

I guess we need a more explicit way to specify marker interfaces.


AFAIR (didn't look at Flon for a while) Flon has the same issues.


Cheers,

	Yuppie