[Zope3-dev] Calling persistent function

[Casey Duncan]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:30:43 -0500
Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
[..]
> I should add that I'm open to suggestions as to how they should
> be used.  Some other notes:
> 
> - It will eventually be possible to use them via the zpt module
>    namespace:
> 
>    modules/foo.bar/myfunc

How is security spelled? Would we need persistent ZCML? ;^) Doing the
declarations on the filesystem doesn't make too much sense to me.
 
> - It will be possible to access utilities in zpt, although
>    we haven't figured out a syntax yet.  It will be possible to
>    register persistent modules as utilities.
> 
> - I'm in favor of something like Evan Simpson's PythonLibraries:
> 
>      http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2003-September/020429.html
> 
>    This would be like a persistent module that you could add to
>    content space.

What would be the reason to support both? Aren't persistent modules more
general?

-Casey