[ZPT] spacify?

[Marc Lindahl]

On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, at 03:33  AM, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
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>> The design cycle is quick, but once things are deployed, the change 
>> cycle is slow... backwards compatibility is vital for zope to move 
>> forward.  If I start upgrading sites and *everything breaks*, I'll 
>> have to re-evaluate the efficacy if zope itself.
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> Change cycle should be quick since this is what zope is made for.
> Its a rapid developement and incubation platform. And developement
> does not end with deployment of the first version of a site.

Well, I'm only speaking from experience :)

>>>
>>> There's been discussion of making it easier to use collections of
>>> helper functions by extending the path syntax; perhaps that would be 
>>> a
>>> place to put functions of interest to DTML users.
>> or modules?
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> Some richer modules for use with python scripts should be created.
> Its not that hard, but harder to decide which way to go is best.
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How about a module called 'dtml' accessible from ZPT, with all DTML 
functions for ease of translating over legacy stuff?

e.g. you could say <span content="python:dtml.spacify(here)" />

:)