[Checkins] SVN: zope.publisher/trunk/src/zope/publisher/ Generalised the skin support a bit to allow skins not only for browser but also

Christian Zagrodnick cz at gocept.com
Fri Aug 10 01:50:25 EDT 2007


Hoi


On 10.08.2007, at 04:30, Stephan Richter wrote:

> On Thursday 09 August 2007 22:27, Fred Drake wrote:
>> On 8/9/07, Stephan Richter <srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> wrote:
>>> We made a very conscious decision *not* to support skins for  
>>> anything
>>> else but browser views. I really want to see some discussion of this
>>> first.
>>
>> I don't recall a discussion about this, so I guess I was too busy to
>> notice.
>>
>> Is there any resulting documentation (a rationale), or can you point
>> to relevant threads from the zope3-dev list?  I don't understand why
>> such a restriction would be desired.
>
> I think it was a discussion between me and Jim during a sprint. ;-)  
> We noticed
> that skins certainly would not make sense for FTP. When I implemented
> XML-RPC, we did not think it was necessary there either, because  
> XML-RPC
> represents an API, not a UI.
>
> I just want to hear at least one use case why this is needed. I  
> still cannot
> see it.

The idea is basically to be able to mark a request in a very easy way.

In our case we have different sets of users. This is they could have  
the same login name but are different persons. For that we need to  
know which "channel" we are talking about.

Of course, as a side effect, the xml-rpc methods which are not  
thought for a kind of users are just not there then.

Sorry for not discussing this earlier on, but for us it just felt right.

-- 
Christian Zagrodnick

gocept gmbh & co. kg  ·  forsterstrasse 29 · 06112 halle/saale
www.gocept.com · fon. +49 345 12298894 · fax. +49 345 12298891


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 186 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/checkins/attachments/20070810/112d3e56/PGP.bin


More information about the Checkins mailing list