On Saturday 11 February 2006 16:50, Jim Fulton wrote: > - Application developers need to build an application. They will > generally want fairly tight control over what goes into the > application. For them, it's valuable to say in an explicit > way what they want. > > - If the application is extensible, then application users > will want to be able to extend the application by adding > "pluggins". If application users are not technically > sophisticated, or, more importantly, not technically interested, > they peobably would prefer to just drop something into a special > directory and be done with it. > > In summary, I think we need *both* approaches, as they serve different > needs.
This is interesting. I agree with Philipp though that a simple install tool would be better than one magic location. I think the ZCML slugs are very cool and if we have a tool (as "make" does now) that does this one step, then we effectively have drop-in packages. BTW, I think that a tool is also better, because it would allow us to keep track of the installed packages and do dependency checking, package-db maintenance, etc. Just randomly thinking... Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list [email protected] Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
