[Zope-dev] Creating a fully stand-alone Zope Page Templates

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:07 am, Kevin Smith wrote:
> I am trying to make a stand-alone Page Templates packages that doesn't
> have any Zope dependencies.  I was able to short circuit security and
> acquisition.  I re-implemented MultiMapping in plain Python and made
> the Base class just an empty class.
>
> This is passing most of the regression tests, but there is one big
> issue left.  When a page template invokes something that is a function,
> it prints the equivalent of 'repr(function)' instead of 'function()'.
> What magic that goes on within Zope am I missing in my wrapper?

Hurm. I can't answer this directly, but I have done the same as you and 
divorced ZPT completely from Zope for Roundup. See http://roundup.sf.net/ in 
the roundup.cgi.[PageTemplates|TAL|ZTUtils] packages.


    Richard