[Zope-dev] ZCA summary so far...

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey,

Thanks for doing this summary!

Gary Poster wrote:

[snip]

> == Utilities available from interfaces ==
> 
> As far as I can tell, no one is against this generally, and several
> people are for it.  Some people are against the syntax that has been
> proposed for this that merges utilties and adapters (see "No
> consensus" section below).  An alternate syntax was proposed
> involving a ``utility`` callable.  This made the most sense when it
> was paired with an ``adapters``  (or ``factory`` or ``new`` or
> ``instance`` or ``create``) callable, which contradicts the consensus
> of the "tuple multi-adaptation" section above.

It's clear that a unification of adaptation and utility lookup in the 
API as I discussed is going much too far for many people. So I've given 
up on that. (we can always take it up again in some other context in the 
future)

Regards,

Martijn