Thomas Lotze wrote: > Following up to Martijn's observations on the ZTK, I'd like to propose a > clean-up of how we handle content types. There are several unrelated > pieces of code concerned with content types, these include at least > zope.contenttype, zope.mimetype and zope.publisher.contenttype. > > - zope.contenttype does some content-type guessing from file names. It's > just a few lines of code and comes with a table of some 30 associations > of file-name extensions with content types. > > - zope.mimetype is a more substantial package that deals with > content-type specific marker interfaces. > > - zope.publisher.contenttype contains a parser for content-type > specifications. > > I propose merging those two packages and one module into one package, > zope.contenttype. > > At present, zope.contenttype doesn't have any dependencies within the ZTK, > and zope.mimetype depends on zope.configuration, zope.component and > zope.interface. zope.publisher.contenttype doesn't import any zope code. > > - Switching packages that depend on zope.mimetype would therefore add no > additional dependencies to them. > > - There are three packages within the ZTK and the set of packages under > review which depend on zope.contenttype: zope.browserresource, > zope.app.file and zope.app.onlinehelp. All of them already depend on > zope.mimetype's dependencies, so there's nothing to be lost for them > either. > > - Finally, the same holds for zope.publisher which would only acquire a > new dependency on zope.contenttype if zope.publisher.contenttype were to > be merged with the latter. > > Further, the parser in zope.publisher.contenttype needs to be made more > conformant with RfC 2045 and be used by other code that does some > content-type matching of its own right now, such as zope.publisher.http.
+1 on consolidation. A couple of questions: - How do 'zope.file' and 'zope.filerepresentation' interact with these modules? - How do these modules interact with the standard library's 'mimetypes' module? Tres. -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
