[Zope3-dev] Re: One namespace for ZCML

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 13 February 2006 10:05, Tres Seaver wrote:
>  - I don't want to encourage people to do configuration in Python:
>    we have moved away from that *on purpose* in Zope, and I don't see
>    a reason to go back.  Directives which make it possible to change
>    policy decisions without touching software are a Good Thing.  I think
>    that letting people who spend their days up to the elbows in the
>    software make choices here skews the picture:  we *want* people to
>    be able to change the behavior of the system in controlled ways
>    without having to modify software;  I would prefer to hear feedback
>    from non-core-developers before going further with the "ZCML delenda
>    est" thread.
>
>  - The "application vs plugin" discussion is probably germane to this
>    issue, as well:  a user who is deploying a single application is
>    acutally *more* likely to define and use convenience directives
>    which reduce the amount of effort required to change policy than
>    the generic appserver-with-plugins configuraiton.  Removing the
>    ability to create such convenience declarations makes it harder
>    for those developers.
>
>  - Many of the objected-to directives exist precisely because people
>    did not want to type the much more verbose equivalents which were
>    the original, "cleaner" spellings.


Mmmh, I had totally forgotten about this design goal/use case. Thanks a lot 
for pointing this out. I will not change my vote on the other proposal, but I 
think we have to keep this in mind when talking about ZCML simplification.

Regards,
Stephan
-- 
Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training