[Zope3-dev] Re: Autoconfiguring a site.zcml

[Martijn Faassen]

David Pratt wrote:
> Hi Jim. I guess I missed the boat on app construction which I have 
> clarified hopefully below. I am speaking of using zc.zope3recipes. As 
> far as site.zcml. I think I'll need to experiment. At this point I see a 
> strong incentive to automate. Too many packages - too little time and 
> too many errors without. I want z3 development to be fast and enjoyable 
> and I don't want to hate configuration but I honestly hate trial and 
> error approaches. This is where I feel I am at with the site.zcml - 
> particularly reconstituting zope and apps from packages and eggs in this 
> context (particularly with the ordering of includes). Many thanks.
>

David and Jim,

As far as I can determine from this thread (I have some difficulty 
following parts of David's long mail as well) you two are agreeing. :)

Jim, is it correct that you'd like the zope 3 recipe to grow an option 
to auto-construct a site.zcml based on egg dependencies? I think David 
perhaps has the impression that since this doesn't exist *yet*, it is 
not going to be created.

Tres's argument is that since there is no system to override ZCML 
auto-inclusion of configuration should not be implemented yet. But Jim 
seems to disagree with this (and I do too).

I also don't understand David's problem with buildout times. The option 
-N helps a lot. Jim, is there anything to say for actually making -N the 
default behavior of buildout?

Regards,

Martijn