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

[Charlie Clark]

Am 03.12.2010, 11:51 Uhr, schrieb Malthe Borch <mborch at gmail.com>:

> It's not always possible to control the order of execution. 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.

Sounds like a bug in autoinclude to me.

> The problem with e.g. request layers as a means to prioritize is that
> views adapt on (context, request) which makes it unfit for the purpose
> if you have any views that specialize on the context interface.

I don't understand this sentence. Are you talking about layers as in the  
Zope 3 skin layer? Otherwise I've nothing but good experiences with views  
using interface subclassing for specialisation.

> Instead, priorities on the configuration level would be an easy
> solution if you are trying to simply get a component to kick in.

As Marius has already noted, this sounds very much like adding more  
complexity to solve the apparent existing complexity: swallowing the  
spider to catch the fly.

Charlie
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