[Zope3-checkins] Re: [Checkins] SVN: zope.publisher/trunk/src/zope/publisher/ Generalised the skin support a bit to allow skins not only for browser but also

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 09 August 2007 22:27, Fred Drake wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Stephan Richter <srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> wrote:
> > We made a very conscious decision *not* to support skins for anything
> > else but browser views. I really want to see some discussion of this
> > first.
>
> I don't recall a discussion about this, so I guess I was too busy to
> notice.
>
> Is there any resulting documentation (a rationale), or can you point
> to relevant threads from the zope3-dev list?  I don't understand why
> such a restriction would be desired.

I think it was a discussion between me and Jim during a sprint. ;-) We noticed 
that skins certainly would not make sense for FTP. When I implemented 
XML-RPC, we did not think it was necessary there either, because XML-RPC 
represents an API, not a UI.

I just want to hear at least one use case why this is needed. I still cannot 
see it.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
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