[Zope-dev] refactoring site functionality

[Martijn Faassen]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> * often it is nice to have application configuration to have a user 
>> interface, so that end users can configure aspects of the application. 
>> This may be filling in an email address or customizing a template or 
>> adding a user, etc. Local utilities are a nice solution for this, even 
>> if there is just a single application installed.
> 
> That sounds like a complicated workaround for not having a mutable
> global configuration.

I don't think it's complicated. It's nice to install an object somewhere 
that stores data and has a UI and also be able to register it as a local 
utility. If you were to have mutable global configuration, you'd need 
some way to expose it to the UI and content-space too.

Regards,

Martijn