[Zope-dev] Proposal: zope.app.publisher refactoring

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Shane Hathaway wrote:
[snip]
> Few developers care about XML-RPC these days.  Most web developers are 
> now working with REST, JSON, and other similar stuff.  It's probably 
> best to move all XML-RPC artifacts, including those in zope.publisher, 
> to a single package, so that most developers can safely ignore the 
> XML-RPC code.

+1 on this general direction.

>> IFTPDirectoryPublisher interface - not sure what's this and where is
>> it used. Probably should be moved to zope.publisher.interfaces.ftp as
>> well.
> 
> FTP is in the same boat as XML-RPC.  Today, very few developers care to 
> provide a dynamic FTP view of anything.  WebDAV usually wins over FTP 
> because adding SSL to WebDAV is easy.  All FTP artifacts should move to 
> a separate package.

+1 as well.

I've recorded this information in the Zope Toolkit decisions document, 
just so we know where we're heading.

Regards,

Martijn