[Zope3-Users] ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Wade Leftwich
Shane Hathaway wrote: [snip] I have a bunch of coworkers who have coded in Java for a long time and are ready to branch out. They're trying out Python, Ruby, C#, etc. They want to develop web applications quickly while preserving maintainability. I think the best way for them to do that

[Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Martin Aspeli
So it's very refreshing to see Zope 3 without ZCML. I hope the trend continues. I think Philipp makes what in my limited understanding is a very good point here: http://www.z3lab.org/sections/blogs/philipp-weitershausen/2005_12_14_zcml-needs-to-do-less Martin -- (muted)

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Stephan Richter
On Thursday 22 December 2005 09:23, Martin Aspeli wrote: So it's very refreshing to see Zope 3 without ZCML.  I hope the trend continues. I think Philipp makes what in my limited understanding is a very good   point here:

[Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
Wade Leftwich wrote: If ZCML (a/k/a The Right Way) is keeping fairly smart developers from trying Z3, then maybe we need an alternative (a/k/a What People Think They Want). Are you sure ZCML is The Right Way? I know its purpose (since I helped invent Zope 3): to combine configurations by

[Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Pete Taylor
*ping* for interest in elaboration on the code you have in mind... Are you sure ZCML is The Right Way? I know its purpose (since I helped invent Zope 3): to combine configurations by multiple developers without imposing a particular workflow. However, I maintain that Python code could do the

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Chris McDonough
On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: Time and again people fail to realize that Zope 3 wants to create the low level framework right first, and only after that add high level simplifications and shortcuts to have less configuration and provide fastest developer exeperience.

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Florent Guillaume
On 22 Dec 2005, at 18:09, Chris McDonough wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: Time and again people fail to realize that Zope 3 wants to create the low level framework right first, and only after that add high level simplifications and shortcuts to have less

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
[Florent] Time and again people fail to realize that Zope 3 wants to create the low level framework right first, and only after that add high level simplifications and shortcuts to have less configuration and provide fastest developer exeperience. Of course people aren't attracted to Zope 3

[Zope3-Users] Zope3-wrapper for SQLObject

2005-12-22 Thread Garanin Michael
Hello! I develop Zope3 wrapper for SQLObject (sqlos-alternative). Features: 1. you can make multi-level containers tree: ZODB-Folder-SQL Container-SQL Container ...- SQL Item 2. zsqlmap use DA-wrapper

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Chris McDonough wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: Time and again people fail to realize that Zope 3 wants to create the low level framework right first, and only after that add high level simplifications and shortcuts to have less configuration and provide

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Jim Fulton
Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: Shane Hathaway wrote: ... The problem with ZCML is not the language (XML). Writing the same description in python would not address such issues as: - when looking at a component, how can I know how it is wired inside the application without doing a grep on 100

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Jim Fulton wrote: Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: The problem with ZCML is not the language (XML). Writing the same description in python would not address such issues as: - when looking at a component, how can I know how it is wired inside the application without doing a grep on 100 files? -

[Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:06:08PM +0100, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: [...] | Yes, I have indeed. Though I was thinking about the development of new | applications, not about API documentation. Probably this could be done | with the Eclipse IDE: for instance when creating an adapter, I would |

Re: [Zope3-Users] Re: ZCML, practicality, purity (was Excellent perspective...)

2005-12-22 Thread Jeff Shell
On 12/22/05, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Shane] Are you sure ZCML is The Right Way? I know its purpose (since I helped invent Zope 3): to combine configurations by multiple developers without imposing a particular workflow. However, I maintain that Python code could do the job