[Zope-dev] Dependencies and future of zope 3

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,
Roger Ineichen wrote:
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> Is someone willing to help doing that task? 

I'm very interested in this topic as well, especially from the 
perspective of Grok of course.

There are many strategies to go ahead in doing this. I'll list just one 
observation I've had here.

One observation is that the pattern of '.browser' subpackages tends to 
expand the dependency structure significantly. Often you want to use 
non-browser functionality and don't care about the UI that ships with 
.browser. At the same time .browser tends to add dependencies to the 
overall package.

Other times (such as for zope.app.form.browser) the main reusable 
functionality of a package is actually almost completely in the .browser 
sub package. It might be nicer to flatten the namespace then and move 
things from .browser into the main package.

It might therefore make sense to review packages one by one, and see 
whether zope.foo.browser can be factored out into a zope.fooui package 
or something like that. Of course the question remains how we can get 
from A to B without a major breakage in backwards compatibility then.

Regards,

Martijn