[Zope-dev] Re: zcml entry points

[Martin Aspeli]

Tres Seaver wrote:

> I may not *want* the other package's ZCML to be loaded:  some of its
> policies may not be appropriate for my application.  I think that the
> "library" vs. "pluggable application" distinction is valid here:  maybe
> you want to define an entry point in the egg which a given pluggable app
> would use at startup time to configure all the plugins which exposed
> that entry point.

+1

> Five fakes such an entry point now by implicitly
> loading meta.zcml, then configure.zcml, then overrides.zcml for all
> packages it recognizes as products:  are you proposing to replace Five's
> DWIM with a new, explicit version?

That may be preferable, but quite hard from a BBB perspective. Right now 
all kinds of products exist that just expect their ZCML to be 
automagically loaded.

Martin

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