[Zope-dev] Context priority as an alternative to configuration directive overrides

[Chris Withers]

On 03/12/2010 10:51, Malthe Borch wrote:
> On 3 December 2010 11:41, Chris Withers<chris at simplistix.co.uk>  wrote:
>> I'd much prefer it to just be an "order of execution" thing, the nyou have
>> total and flexible control. Combined with some logging about why something
>> is as it is and you have your solution.
>
> It's not always possible to control the order of execution.

It's *always* possible, zcml is essentially one big declarative file...

> For
> instance, with z3c.autoinclude, the order of inclusion is somewhat
> random and although you can to some extend control the order via
> explicit dependency includes, it's hard to work around 3rd party
> packages that provide own overrides.

...anything else is just a kludge or a hack. The Plone world is full of 
these, of course, but I'd prefer not to polute zcml with that.

Chris

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