[Zope3-dev] Re: a plan for widgets?

[Martijn Faassen]

Jeff Shell wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> 
>>So *don't use ZCML*;  use Python:  there is literally nothing which can
>>be done in ZCML which cannot be done in Python.  I wish that folks who
>>don't like / need ZCML would quit trying to dictate how the rest of us
>>use ZCML.
> 
> 
> "Literally nothing"? Try literally everything. I'm sorry. But that was
> the experience I had that set me in such a bad temperament. I had no
> idea what half of these directives were doing, and when trying to
> duplicate them in a test environment I nearly threw the laptop to the
> ground and swore of programming forever. I was *INCREDIBLY*
> frustrated. There is a lot of potentially valuable functionality
> *hidden behind ZCML*. If a ZCML directive were a one line
> wrapper/adapter around a common function, I'd feel different.

What if it were trivial to replicate any ZCML directive in a test 
environment?

Regards,

Martijn