[Zope-dev] Re: zcml entry points

[Martijn Faassen]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
[snip]
>> So I turned things around: if I state in my egg information that I
>> require another package that means I need to have that package
>> available and functional. Which suggests that its zcml has to be loaded
>> before mine. And that is exactly what I am doing: adding an entry point
>> that allows a package to say "in order to function I need to have these
>> zcml files loaded".
> 
> I may not *want* the other package's ZCML to be loaded:  some of its
> policies may not be appropriate for my application.  

Since this appears to be a rare case that is the exception, what about 
using the new ZCML exclude framework for this case? You need to know 
what you are doing, but this use case is for people who know exactly 
what they're doing anyway, right?

Regards,

Martijn