[Zope-dev] Re: zcml entry points

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Fred Drake wrote:
[snip]
>>> For example, say you want to install oi.plum. You need to add the line
>>> 'oi.plum' twice - once under 'eggs' and once under 'zcml' in your
>>> buildout.cfg. Forget the latter, and the package doesn't work properly
>>> (or at all).
>>
>> I actually really like this; I don't get the configuration for a
>> package unless I ask for it.  It's not unusual to want only the code
>> and not the default configuration for a package.
> 
> Right - but you're building an application, and you're pretty 
> experienced with Zope. A lot of Plone users just want to install a 
> plug-in (a product), basically. Before, they just dropped it into a 
> directory. Now, they declare it twice in a file (presuming there's a 
> cheese shop release). That's a (small) step backwards (duplication). 
> Declaring it once would be a step forwards (no manual download)

Right - if I understand this well, this would introduce the option not 
to have to repeat yourself. You use the egg and that takes care of 
loading the ZCML. Sounds like a good thing, as long as it can somehow be 
turned off. This would be a good thing for Grok to have.

Regards,

Martijn