[Zope-Coders] Proposed 2.7 features

[Brian Lloyd]

> I made three proposals for Zope 2.7 and I would like to hear if they
> can be merged into the HEAD. Since I will be very busy until mid-February
> I would like to finish the work as soon as possible (early before
> the alpha release).
> 
> Andreas

(Sorry this is so late - I've been buried)

I think the index names and DateTime proposals are good to go 
(note I made a few comments on the DateTime proposal regarding 
unit test coverage and docs).

The ReST proposal makes me a little less comfortable, since it 
provides "more than one way to do the same thing", which is 
often a signal that something should remain an add-on. (FWIW, 
Jim's opinion is that believes it was a mistake to tightly 
integrate old-style STX with DTML documents, etc. in the first 
place). It seems a little thing, but IMHO it is an accumulation 
of these types of little things that contribute to some people's 
opinions that Zope is inscrutable.


That said, I'm willing to defer to the will-o-the-community on 
this. I do think that there needs to be good docs and tests 
ready before it is merged. Docs need to include updates to the 
relevant DTML parts of the Zope book, updated help for DTML 
objects and some sort of ReST reference (though I imagine this 
could be a link to the official ReST docs).


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