-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris McDonough wrote: > As a result of messing around with the ZCA + ZCML outside the context of Zope, > I've found that it may be possible to significantly reduce the number of egg > dependencies of BFG by replacing the code that allows the following ZCML > directives to work: > > - utility > - adapter > - interface > - subscriber > > As such, I'm thinking of ditching the handlers written "zope" namespace for > these directives in favor of handler written in the "bfg" namespace. So, for > example, rather than doing: > > <configure xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope";> > > <utility > provides=".interfaces.IFoo" > factory=".foo.Foo"/> > > </configure> > > You would instead do: > > <configure xmlns="http://namespaces.repoze.org/bfg";> > > <utility > provides=".interfaces.IFoo" > factory=".foo.Foo"/> > > </configure> > > The down side of this is that it would mean that existing applications that > used > ZCML would need to change their ZCML, or they'd at least need to declare > "zope.security" as an install_requires dependency and do a manual include of > the > "zope.component" ZCML: > > <include package="zope.component" file="meta.zcml" /> > > Creating parallel "adapter", "utility" and "subscriber" handlers is really > how I > should have started things out, but I didn't, and given that there are people > using the system in the wild that this would cause problems for in a new > release, I wanted to ask for comments. > > Here are the dependencies we might be able to shed by doing this: > > zope.location-3.4.0-py2.4.egg > zope.publisher-3.5.4-py2.4.egg > zope.security-3.5.2-py2.4-macosx-10.5-i386.egg > zope.traversing-3.5.0a4-py2.4.egg > zope.i18n-3.6.0-py2.4.egg > pytz-2008i-py2.4.egg > > My personal opinion is that doing this is "worth it" for the long term. None > of > these packages actually *do* anything for bfg apps, they're just required to > satisfy dependencies of features we can't use.
+1. We aren't going to get the "fly what you test" crowd to strip the stupidity any time soon: "if they can't get the joke, then fork them." Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJTX1f+gerLs4ltQ4RAoHFAKDKi+hBHBetdgFUPaI3E9jy+5fDQACgrg2o z/PPhRJblb2UgVfBbnosIIU= =Dr1a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
