[Zope-Coders] Proposed 2.7 features

[Andreas Jung]

> On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 09:39  AM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
>
>>> 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).

I will polish and update the docs. There are some additional
unittests for the new flag. The changes to the DateTime.py
are so minimal that the old ambigious behaviour will really
not change.


>>
>> 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.

Your argument is true but IMO reST since people complain
about things that really don't work or don't work as expected
in STX and it is a really pain to tell them "it does not work
and nobody will fix it ;-)". So we should provide a reliable
and stable alternative for STX.

>>
>>
>> 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).

There is already a short documentation about the extensions in the
doc folder. For a 2.7 edition of the Zope Book (if there will be one
some day :-)) I will make the additions of reST of course.

Andreas