[Zope3-dev] Re: ZCML bad ;-)

Shane Hathaway shane at hathawaymix.org
Tue Jan 24 12:22:16 EST 2006


Fred Drake wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>Shane Hathaway wrote:
>>
>>>Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>However, I think one namespace for ZCML is enough.
> 
> 
> Are you sure?
> 
> Perhaps it's reasonable to use a single namespace for all the ZCML
> directives defined as part of the Zope 3 release.

Agreed.  Let's just do that.

>  What about
> third-party directives?  Are you saying we don't need to worry about
> introducing names that conflict with third-party names we don't know
> about?
> 
> That sounds short-sighted to me.  We've certainly defined several
> directives here at ZC, and I'd hate to have to push them all into Zope
> 3 itself just to ensure we don't end up with name conflicts in the
> future.

Separate namespaces for separate business entities makes sense to me. 
What doesn't make sense to me is having separate namespaces for every 
subsystem, which is too deep a hierarchy.

Shane


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