[Zope3-dev] RFC: remove 'directive' directive

[Jim Fulton]

R. David Murray wrote:
> I'm just about ready to merge my 'metameta' branch.  I'd like to
> merge it before starting to backport the documentation Steve wrote
> into the meta.zcml files.  And I'd like to get my changes in before
> Jim starts to work on having the registry retain more metadata,
> since my code may be useful in that regard.
> 
> I'm afraid I did things backwards, and am only now writing the unit
> tests (my makezcmldocs program was my operational test harness).
> In the process of doing that something that I'd kind of noticed
> before but had accepted has been smacking me in the face.  I
> started to try to factor the existing unit tests so I could reuse
> the various directive tests in my own unit tests.  In doing this,
> I realized that the existence of the 'directive' directive reults
> in a fair amount of redundent and complexifying code in the
> configuration system.  The tests for the two are almost-but-not-quite
> identical, and factoring the tests to unify them is a bit of a pain.
> 
> I stuck a 'raise "Debug"' into the Directive handler, and it did
> not trigger.  So I conclude that so far no one has felt any desire
> to use the directive directive.  So I propose that we eliminate it.
> The small amount of extra zcml verbiage that would be required for
> the case of defining a single directive is trivial compared to the
> benefit of eliminating redundent code in the configuration system
> in my opinion.
> 
> Thoughts?  Votes?

Sounds good to me. Go ahead. Sorry for the late reply.

Jim

-- 
Jim Fulton           mailto:jim@zope.com       Python Powered!
CTO                  (888) 344-4332            http://www.python.org
Zope Corporation     http://www.zope.com       http://www.zope.org