[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 without ZODB

[Chris Withers]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> (Note that in my original reply to ChrisW, I tried to be pragmatic. Of 
> course, if ChrisW has the resources to go into this refactoring, by all 
> means, let's do it).

No resources, sorry :-(
Just a desire to see this "done right" :-S

The pragmatic approach is just to make like Sidnei and have a zodb with 
only one root object in it...

>> There are two parts of your question.  Making it simpler to plug in a 
>> different application root, and dealing with ZConfig.

This is true... while I'd love to have config have nothing to do with 
the problem at hand, I guess, as you point out, it's currently woken in. 
  I guess a start would be to make it simpler to *not* use ZConfig but 
use a.n.other configuration method. I have memories of Jim having a 
proposal about this?

> In order to implement a simpler security mechanism for grok, we had to 
> re-implement every single publication (though of course subclassing was 
> still possible, but we had to create a new variant of every publication 
> class). That shouldn't be necessary.

Yeah, I'm guessing there's a few places where:

-getting the root object
-setting up the component achitecture
-setting up the servers
-setting up the security policy

...all run into one and maybe now's the time to burst them open?

cheers,

Chris

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