[Zope3-dev] Death to "Views" package.

[Casey Duncan]

Dumb Idea #371:

How about we name the view subpackages *View?

So there might be:

BrowserView
FTPView
XULView

subpackages. And maybe "CommonView" on the off chance that multiple views=
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reuse some view-related logic.

-Casey

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 01:42 pm, Steve Alexander wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
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> > Early on, Stephan and I came up with the convention of putting views
> > in view-type-specific subpackages within a "Views" subpackage. This
> > means that most packages have a Views subpackage that has a Browser
> > subpackage. While I still like the idea of separating Browser views
> > into their own subpackage, I find the intermediate "Views" package to
> > be unnecessary and quite annoying.
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> > I'd like to make a papal edict that we stop creating "Views" packages
> > and as time permits, start refactoring away our existing views
> > directory (or maybe have one refactoring that removes all of them).
> > Before I make the edict, however, I'd like to see if there are
> > dissenting opinions. :)
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> The name "Browser" implies "View" well enough for me. So, I don't see=20
> the need for an intermediate Views directory.
> Also, if I'm definiing Resources, I don't think I'd want to have:
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> Contact/Views/Browser/foo
> Contact/Resources/Browser/bar
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> Better to have
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> Contact/Browser/foo
> Contact/Browser/bar
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> > At this point, it's worth asking whether it would be better to avoid
> > the veiw-specific subpackages altogether, although I still find them
> > useful.
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> Keep the views separate from the content. This makes the tests separate=
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> too. Tests of views are typically very different than tests of content.
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> Contact
> Contact/tests
> Contact/Browser
> Contact/Browser/tests
> Contact/FTP
> Contact/FTP/tests
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> --
> Steve Alexander
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