[Zope3-dev] RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

[Jim Fulton]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Saturday 04 March 2006 21:26, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/UseConfigParserForHighLevelConfiguration
>>
>>Is a proposal for using ConfigParser, rather than ZConfig for high-level
>>configuration.
>>
>>Comments welcome.
> 
> 
> I am +1. Anything that allows us to decrease our code base and use a standard 
> tool is good. We can always have a schema-verifying layer on top of 
> ConfigParser. Validating the fields is currently the biggest advantage of 
> ZConfig. 

And, now that you mention it, the schema system used by ZConfig is unique
to ZConfig. For historical reasons, it doesn't use zope.schema.  It would be
fairly easy to provide a simple schema system for ConfigParser data based
on zope.schema for verification and conversion.

Jim

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