[Zope-dev] Revert removal of ++skin++ in Zope4?

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Wed Nov 16 13:06:17 UTC 2011


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On 11/16/2011 07:28 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:53, Charlie Clark 
> <charlie.clark at clark-consulting.eu> wrote:
>> Am 16.11.2011, 12:49 Uhr, schrieb Lennart Regebro
>> <regebro at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> Right. Could we standardize on skins or browserlayers plz? Having
>>> both confuses the heck out of me.
>> 
>> Definitely a topic that needs (re)-opening. From a CMF point of I
>> think we're just about at the point where we could switch to browser
>> layers, well, at least once CMF 2.3 has been released. But I think
>> that CMF Skins still offer some functionality that you don't get
>> with browser layers out of the box.
> 
> When I said skins I meant ++skins++. CMF Skins must die.

Note that for all their warts, they are *massively* more successful than
the Z3 reimplementation, which was overengineered (I helped with that,
I'm sure).  In particular, the exceesive amount of ZCA majyk makes
complicaterd uses of the Z3 skins very fragile (easy to misconfigure,
hard to discover what you broke).


Tres.
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