[Zope3-dev] keeping attributes abstract

2006-03-08 Thread Sam Stainsby
Hi all, I've been playing with Zope 3 for a short while, and am ready to use it seriously to put together an accounting application. Zope 3 is fantastic stuff - in Zope 2 I really missed interfaces and other clean programming patterns from when I was writing lots of Java. In fact, I even started a

Re: [Zope3-dev] Doctests for IObjectModifiedEvent

2006-03-08 Thread Stephan Richter
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 15:18, Egon Frerich wrote: > I want to have doctests which document the correctness of an handler for >  an IObjectModifiedEvent. But the 'notify' triggers a TypeError, because > the handler 'takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)'. Two arguments are > correct. I have a sus

[Zope3-dev] Doctests for IObjectModifiedEvent

2006-03-08 Thread Egon Frerich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I want to have doctests which document the correctness of an handler for an IObjectModifiedEvent. But the 'notify' triggers a TypeError, because the handler 'takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)'. Two arguments are correct. I have searched the

[Zope3-dev] Why z.a.appsetup.bootstrap function do not return the actual object

2006-03-08 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, I'm currently playning with the functions from zope.app.appsetup.bootstrap and I'm wondering why the functions that create objects (addConfigureUtility, addUtility, configureUtility, ensureObject, ensureUtility) do return the name of the object added (or None) and not the object itself. W

Re: [Zope3-dev] Unclear Zope Committer Guidelines

2006-03-08 Thread Stephan Richter
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 08:51, Jeff Rush wrote: > I presume I can skip joining the zope-coders list then and get by with a > steady diet of zope3-dev, zope3-users and zope-collector-monitor? We would like Zope 3 developers to be subscribed to zope3-dev and zope3-checkins (so that your checkin

[Zope3-dev] Unclear Zope Committer Guidelines

2006-03-08 Thread Jeff Rush
Hi, I received Zope3 committer privileges at PyCon and I'm trying to get a good citizen and do everything the Committer Guidelines say to do. However, I see that the "zope-coders" list was retired in Nov 2005 but the website still says membership in that list is required for committers, at the

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Withers
Stephan Richter wrote: Mmh, we already have a configuration framework, zope.configuration. Maybe we should just utilize it or is it not flexible enough? I don't know. I think ZConfig has been around longer, why don't we just use that?! Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python C

Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Use ConfigParser for High-Level Configuration

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Withers
Andreas Jung wrote: XML as config format must die :-) ZConfig has the right balance between a stupid INI format and XML. +sys.maxint The weak point at this discussion (as I mentioned earlier) is that we are discussion about a format and not about a flexible configuration framework that solve