[Zope-dev] Non-ZCML config for ZCA. (Was: Anyone want to do Google Summer of code mentoring for PSF?)

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

For Martian, Python 3 support is mostly an issue of making class 
directives work as class decorators.

I'm not sure what Lennart means by point 1.

Anyway, Grok's configuration is dependent on the rules you give it, so 
it's possible to have a completely explicit set of directives with no 
implicit fallback to default values whatsoever. Martian supports that 
scenario right now.

The only implicit behavior left would be the grokking process, which 
generally recognizes subclasses of particular base classes as something 
to register. You could do away with this using class decorators as well, 
but that would require some changes to Martian to allow it to recognize 
things that way. (and it won't work for grokking instances, just classes 
and functions)

Note that Pyramid as far as I understand also has a non-ZCML 
configuration method that is closer to ZCML.

Regards,

Martijn