[Zope3-dev] RFC: ViewDirectoryHierarchyReorganization

[Shane Hathaway]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> In order to make life easier for web developers getting into Zope 3,
> I've made a proposal to drastically review the way views (in particular
> browser views) are currently organized physically. The full story
> is here:
> 
> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/ViewDirectoryHierarchyReorganization
> 
> Please comment!

I like this proposal.  But are you referring to web developers 
maintaining their own sites, or are you referring to web developers 
maintaining Zope 3 source code?  If the former, you don't want web 
developers to modify the Zope 3 source to maintain their own sites.  If 
the latter, they probably need to get to know Zope 3 pretty intimately 
anyway.

I'll assume you're speaking of the former case (web developers 
maintaining their own sites).  In that case, I think we want to give web 
developers a "sandbox" of some sort to do their work, apart from the 
Zope 3 source.  The sandbox might take the form of a web UI, or it might 
take the form of a directory on the filesystem which they are allowed to 
modify.

We expect in the future that Python developers will "check out" and 
"check in" code to ZODB.  So here's an idea: perhaps web developers 
could do the same thing, but with templates and graphics rather than 
code.  In fact, read-only interface documentation might be included as 
part of the checkout.

What do you think?

Shane