[Zope-dev] zope.publisher dependencies

[Shane Hathaway]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> - It's not well enough documented.  While I think there's merit in doing 
> some things at the WSGI level, I remain pretty happy with the 
> publication interface for separatating generic publisher functions from 
> application policies.  I which the use of this API was better 
> communicated and understood.

I hope you're not asking me to write documentation for zope.publisher 
:-), because I only understand the mechanics.  The overall scope and 
purpose is cloudy to me.  In particular, I don't understand how the 
publication interface is actually generic.  Does it fit the needs of 
anything other than Zope?

> A less major complaint is some baggage from the past. There are a number 
> of request features that I never use and tend to forget about. The 
> biggest of these is the special form data unmarshalling and url 
> manipulation support. (I was amused to read in your introduction to your 
> pipeline proposal that people wanted to know the answer to the question: 
> "When does Zope respect the :method form variable?". :)

FWIW, that particular functionality has been pulled out twice now, both 
in repoze.monty and zope.httpform.  As a baby step, we could make 
zope.publisher depend on zope.httpform.  (I made zope.httpform without 
knowing repoze.monty already existed, but zope.httpform has more tests 
and interfaces and it's hosted on svn.zope.org, so I think zope.httpform 
is worth keeping.)

Shane