[Zope-dev] ZPaterns, Pluggins

[Chris Withers]

Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
> If you're using ZPatterns anyway,

After looking at ZPatterns for a few more days again, I still can't
justify introducing that ammount of complexity to the project concerned.
Also, ZPatterns seems very skewed towards TTW development now and, for
CVS and distributability reasons, that's also innappropriate for this
project.

> you might like to look at PlugIns. The
> idea with PlugIns is that a PlugIn manager delegates the handling of
> objects it contains to its various PlugIns. Typically, a PlugIn will
> claim objects based on the object's meta-type.

As I understand it, the pluggins archicture is now wholey seperated from
the ZPatterns one, so I might still take a look at that. Are there any
docs about the pluggin architecture anywhere?

> PlugIns appear in the user-interface as separate tabs. See the
> Customizers and Data Plug-ins tabs in a Folder w/ Customizer Support
> instance for an example.

Thanks, I'll take a look :-)

cheers,

Chris