On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 00:46, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Tim Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> Unfortunately I needed deferredimport and was completely unsure how >> else to proceed at the time. >> I use code generation for gae based models, and the unfortunately >> reference entities need actual models/classes which means you can very >> easily create >> cyclic dependancies. Storm allows references to be defined "strings" >> such as "model.MyClass" but gae doesn't implement such a thing, >> so deferredimport was the next best thing. > > I thought about this a bit and realized that I could implement > deferred import without using proxies. I don't know why I didn't think > of this before. > > Then I looked at the "Importing" project, which provides the > peak.util.imports package: > > http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/Importing > > This looks like a good alternative to zope.deferredimport. Maybe we > should deprecate zope.deferredimport in favor of Importing. If there > are interesting things that depend on zope.deferredimport that we > don't want to update, we could reimplement zope.deferredimport using > Importing.
+1 for Not Invented Here things. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ 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 )
