[Zope-dev] zope.app.publication dependencies (volunteersneeded!)

[Martijn Faassen]

Michael Howitz wrote:
> Am 14.05.2009 um 12:05 schrieb Martijn Faassen:
[snip]
>> Could you talk a bit about what your branch is trying to accomplish?
> 
> zope.app.exception depends on zope.formlib's namedtemplate mechanism.
> zope.formlib has many many dependencies but only this special function  
> of it is used by zope.app.exception. It's needed to render  
> customizable the unauthorized views.
> So I replaced zope.formlib by the much more lightweight z3c.template.

Is this replacement compatible with zope.formlib's namedtemplate 
mechanism? Will anything break?

The guaranteed compatible step forward to reduce dependencies would be 
to extract the namedtemplate mechanism from zope.formlib and place that 
somewhere else. zope.formlib can then have an import for backwards 
compatibility.

> See also the proposal http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2009-April/035833.html

I missed this discussion then, my apologies. I still stand by my opinion 
that this would suddenly pull in *new* libraries in with a significant 
chunk of new code, and we need to be very careful with that and not just 
do it to lift a dependency.

>> (see elsewhere on the thread for a way to cut the dependency of
>> zope.app.publication to zope.app.exception completely with little  
>> effort) 
> 
> This (move the ISystemErrorView) seems to be the right solution to get  
> rid of the zope.app.publication dependency on zope.app.exception.
> In a project of mine I need zope.app.exception independently of this  
> dependency but I do not want to depend on zope.formlib for a little  
> feature of it which can be done by another smaller package.

I understand. Why not move the namedtemplate mechanism somewhere else 
entirely, though? This way we'd not introduce new code. The 
namedtemplate code itself only seems to depend on zope.traversing, but 
that doesn't sound like a good home. The tests depend on 
zope.app.pagetemplate, so perhaps it should move there? This is still a 
dependency of zope.app.exception anyway, and it itself doesn't appear to 
depend on zope.formlib.

zope.app.exception's UI bits are a curious case in that they're not 
really part of the ZMI, though they integrate with the ZMI and assume 
the existence of some macros. It's also a zope.app.* package and we'd 
like to get rid of those in the toolkit. What to do with it?

Regards,

Martijn