[Zope-dev] Re: Reducing dependencies of zope.publisher

[Martin Aspeli]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>>>> Thoughts? Objections?
>>> I've caught the repoze bug, and if this makes a Repoze.zope3 easier  
>>> to
>>> do/happier, then I'm all for it.
>> I suspect the work I did a couple of weeks ago adding paste support  
>> to zope.publisher would go a long way. That was released in  
>> zope.publisher 3.5.0.
> 
> 
> Then again, since this makes it easy to use zope3 in paste, I don't  
> know what repose adds.

It splits virtual hosting, transaction management, error logging and 
retry out as WSGI middleware. I'm not sure how much of that is shared 
between Zope 2 and Zope 3, of course.

Really, I see Repoze as being mainly about patterns and packaging. I'm 
sure Chris and Tres would like to maintain as little software as possible.

One thing that sucks right now for the repoze.zope2 story is that Zope 2 
isn't "officially" packaged in an egg-friendly form so the Repoze guys 
have to repackage it. It'd be great to be able to get Zope 2 released in 
a way that can at least optionally be installable as eggs.

Cheers,
Martin

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