[Zope3-dev] RFC: ZConfig and other formats for ZCML

[Jim Fulton]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Friday 20 January 2006 07:36, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>See:
>>
>>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ZConfigAndOtherFormatsForZCML
>>
>>Comments and volunteers welcome.
> 
> 
> I am +1.
> 
> However, there is another risk. If we support multiple formats then that means 
> that a developer will have to understand all of them, because if he wants to 
> use another package that uses format X but he is used to format Y, then he 
> has to learn format X. Of course this issue has been discussed in the context 
> of ZPT versus DTML a long time ago.

I've already listed that as a risk.  OTOH, if we only reimplement the
ZConfig format with ZCML, we won't be introducing a new format.  We'll
just be eliminating an engine.

Jim

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