[Zope3-dev] z3 in z2 land, zcml vs. yaml, and a new year

Shane Hathaway shane at zope.com
Thu Jan 1 20:32:45 EST 2004


On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Sidnei da Silva wrote:

> Maybe yes, even as an experiment. However I'm -1 on the overall idea of
> going non-XML for Zope 3, though I wouldn't mind if it was possible for
> someone to hook yaml as an alternative configuration language. This is
> the Component Architecture, isn't it? Write a component that implements
> (fictious) IMetaConfigurationReader and be done!
> 
> Now, back to the XML idea, I think Jim mentioned somewere that ZConfig
> could be a serious candidate to replacing ZCML.

That's good.  Maybe I'll work with ZConfig instead.

In using ZCML, I'm finding that its purpose and use so strongly overlap
with programming that it deserves to be easy to type and read in a text
editor.

Shane



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