[Zope-dev] package dependency refactoring progress report

[Shane Hathaway]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> I'm not sure about zope.rest; there's already a z3c.rest which likely 
> does something quite different, and I think a "zope.rest" package should 
> actually *talk* about REST. What about "zope.httpview" instead?

Well, no, I don't think it's generic enough to call that.  zope.app.http 
is almost a webdav implementation, except I'm not sure it implements 
enough to actually work with most webdav clients.

> Another note, I think we should consider splitting off 
> zope.app.publisher.xmlrpc, which looks quite independent from the rest, 
> into its own package. So:
> 
> zope.app.publisher -> zope.view, zope.xmlrpcview

I've pondered this split before, but AFAICT it would only increase the 
number of dependencies, so I've been waiting for the graph to shrink 
before talking about it.

Shane