[Zope] Re: [Zope-Annce] ANN: Perl For Zope

[Martijn Faassen]

Paul Everitt wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> > The addition of the Perl stuff will be bad if the Zope source will be
> > hacked up in various places in order to support this. I can be _good_ if
> > this means a focus on providing clean interfaces first, and a more
> > componentized architecture. I.e. there's a focus on integration with
> > *any* external language through some generalized API. Not just Perl
> > specific changes.
> 
> Believe me, the Zope sources are being hacked up more for DOM/XSLT than
> for Perl! :^)

I know; I'm worrying about that too. ;)

> Seriously, there aren't any changes to Zope being proposed for Perl
> Methods.  Actually, the only changes are positive ones -- a
> "Methodgeddon", meaning a Method Armageddon.
> 
> The work on XSLT Methods and Perl Methods has exposed a need for a
> coherent model between all the methods, particularly how things are
> bound.  Thus, the white hot spotlight of bringing in more kinds of
> methods have made us look at the cruft and inconsistencies.

That's good news, then! I'll stop worrying for a while. :)

Regards,

Martijn