[Zope-dev] Re: [Plone-developers] zcml entry points

[Lennart Regebro]

On 10/22/07, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
> In at least 3 places we express dependency information. For different
> *purposes* in each case, but we still state something like:
>
> 1. "we use dependency X, and please download and install it"
> 2. "we use dependency X, please configure it"
> 3. "we use dependency X, please import the following from it"
>
> It'd be nice if I only had to say "I want to import from dependency X,
> please make sure it's there and available." Actually this is a little
> bit like zc.resourcelibrary can make resources appear on your page
> headers when you write code that needs it.
>
> Of course this is sometimes not possible, as there's not enough
> information available, or there are multiple separate ways to
> configure it.

In the end I guess this all is just more arguments for separating the
functions and the views into separate eggs.

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