[Zope-dev] C-extension in zope.i18nmessageid

[Malthe Borch]

Martijn Pieters wrote:
> I object as well, and have asked for Malthe to provide his reasoning
> here at the Plone Performance Sprint in Bristol, but so far his only
> motivation is that he wants to see if he can get this to work without
> a C-extension. I am sceptical he'll be able to, and am not convinced
> it'll be worth introducing risks.

The obvious motivation for this is to:

* Reduce code complexity
* Allow operation in a pure-Python environment

As for cons, any change is a risk and I believe the concensus seen in 
this thread is that it outweighs the above mentioned motivation.

\malthe