[Zope-dev] To ZCML or not ;-)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Thu Apr 7 09:48:49 EDT 2005


Richard Jones wrote:
> Is this a general trend for Zope 2? I'd rather see Zope 2 kinda avoid ZCML if 
> possible. It's just one of those personal preference things, I suppose, but I 
> know I'm not the only one who isn't that enamored of the ZCML approach. I 
> actually like having the declarations all in the python code like it is in 
> Zope 2.

Am I right in thinking that the XML part of ZCML is layered over python 
functionality underneath? If so, how hard would it be to provide an
alternative to the baroque XML? - the bit of ZCML I don't like ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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