[Zope] DTML discussion at the moment

[Martijn Faassen]

> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> >What currently happens perhaps too often is that people (the
> >programmers) use rather heavy-duty DTML tricks to accomplish things,
> >because using Python is too hard for those small things right now.

Alexander Staubo wrote: 
> Yep, but we mostly do it because wrapping things in an External Method
> is more painful than writing the equivalent code in DTML. 

I thought I was saying that? With 'using Python is too hard' I didn't
mean *Python* is too hard, it's just *using* it that's too hard right
now.

> Do a mistake
> in writing the EM that you have to restart Zope. There is no provision
> for writing the EM Python code through the Zope management interface --
> for this reason I'd like to see a Script Method object which has a
> text-area field where you can write Python code. It'd definitely ease
> the transition to Python whenever this is needed.

I agree, I'd like to see something like that as well. Proposal relating
to that follows.

Regards,

Martijn