On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Leonardo Rochael Almeida <leoroch...@gmail.com> wrote: > As for the rest, most of the things that have been removed from core > were done in such a way that they can still be used with Zope2, so > ERP5 can happily keep using them. If things can keep evolving with > this care we should be ok.
I tried to be careful to make things optional in the past. But we have reached the end of where that is possible in many ways. Yes, we can still make the session/browser id machinery optional, as these are in separate packages and the application setup code no longer depends on them. But almost everything else is all tightly integrated and part of the App, OFS and Zope2 packages. There's some code we can move out of these, like App.Extensions can go into ExternalMethods and ZSQLMethods - but there's not much else left that's actually independent. >> - Once most of the ZMI is gone, it should be feasible to drop DTML or >> rewrite what little is left as page templates > > If DTML is still available as an optional product/package, this should > not be a problem for us, but we'll likely depend on ZSQLMethods > (hence, on DTML) for a long time, since our ZSQLCatalog functionality > is built heavily around it. DTML is a standalone distribution, so I don't see any problem with it being used independently. I think we can move the App.special_dtml.DTMLFile class over to the DocumentTemplate distribution to make that easier. > This one is rather easy to fix, we just need to move the object from > the Control_Panel into the Application Root, so I mention this for > future reference, in case others have this problem. Indeed. The control panel basically is a view these days. I think there might be one or two "profilers" out there which add entries there as well. All of these should be easy to change and move to the application root. I've been especially annoyed by the profilers, which all left broken objects in the control panel, without any UI to remove them. > But, for example, you committed some changes (and todos) relating to > removing icons. Out of curiosity What is the reasoning behind this? Icons don't add any functionality as such, so there were rather easy to remove, following my premise that all of the ZMI should go sooner than later. There's no really good technical reason to remove them - if the ZMI should go we just have to start somewhere. Hanno _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org 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 )
