[Zope3-dev] Re: Reducing the Amount of ZCML Directives ready for review

[Dominik Huber]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
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>> Dominik Huber wrote:
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>>> I really appreciate your effort in all other cases, but in this case I
>>> think its not a simplification.
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>> At least in case of class/implements it is. I'm merging two directives,
>> class/implements and five:implements into one.
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>> The case of class/factory is arguable, I admit. However, there I'm just
>> following the rule of a) defining things in Python and registering them in
>> ZCML and b) use more basic ZCML directives, less special ones.
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> That "rule" is somewhat debatable (the debate seems ongoing).
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> I think we could argue the following equally well:  if you find a
> directive unuseful, *just don't use it*.  Register *new* directives
> (perhaps in a new namespace, if you want to reuse the names) which do
> your "simpler / cleaner" thing.
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> Deprecation is not always a reasonable model, given disagreement about
> the value of the simplification.
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