[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope/utilities - testrunner.py:1.28.20.1

[Andreas Jung]

--On Dienstag, 19. November 2002 12:27 -0500 Shane Hathaway 
<shane@zope.com> wrote:

> Andreas Jung wrote:
>> The integration of reST into Zope with support inside ZPT, PyScripts
>> and DTML makes it necessary to make it part of Zope. I think the
>> integration is a good thing (there were only +1 votes). A standalone
>> product would require monkeypatching and that sux like hell;-)
>
> As far as I know, you only have to integrate into the Python script
> standard namespace, making it accessible everywhere.  That wouldn't be a
> monkey patch.
>
> The integration is good, but if you depend on the Zope release schedule,
> you have to wait for the Zope release schedule.  I believe you'll be able
> to improve your product much faster if you disentangle it from the Zope
> schedule.

I don't know exactly what your point is. The integration consists
of the docutils package and a very tiny wrapper that makes a HTML()
available (similiar to STXNG). It also extends the formatters
in DT_Var.py and makes the restrcutred_text() method available
in the standard namespace. So there is no real difference between
the integration of STXNG and reST. Since there is no additional
work to be done on the integration I do not depend on a special Zope
version or special features. I don't except any major improvments
in the integration of reST except syncing the docutils package with
the current docutils version from time to time.

Cheers,
Andreas



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