[ZPT] Re: macros and contexts

Chris Withers chrisw at nipltd.com
Mon Sep 22 05:36:10 EDT 2003


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote at 2003-9-17 12:06 +0100:
>  > Dieter Maurer wrote:
>  > >  > What leads you to feel differently?
>  > > 
>  > > The assumption is, that "widgetlib" can be acquired from "here".
>  > > Such an assumption should not be necessary (inside the widget library).
>  > 
>  > Good point, he should perhaps use container or template to acquire widgetlib 
>  > from there.
>  > 
>  > Either than, or make widgetlib globally acquirable...
> 
> These are work arounds necessary at the moment.
> 
> It would be nice when they would not be necessary for some
> future PageTemplate version.

I think implicit acquisition is central to Zope 2, so I don't see them as 
workarounds.

Zope 3 doesn't use implicit acquisition and so has other ways of dealing with 
these requirements.

Chris




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