[Checkins] SVN: z3c.unconfigure/trunk/src/z3c/unconfigure/README.txt Add a failing test

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 6/17/09 11:43 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Wichert Akkerman<wichert at wiggy.net>  wrote:
>> On 6/17/09 11:35 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Wichert Akkerman<wichert at wiggy.net>
>>>   wrote:
>>>> On 6/17/09 11:30 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
>>>>> Might I suggest that you upgrade to zope.configuration 3.6.0 and use
>>>>> the new exclude directive instead.
>>>> Does that work in Zope 2.10?
>>> Looking at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.configuration I don't see
>>> anything in the changelog that could cause any incompatibilities. You
>>> never know until you try, though ;)
>> It does not seem to have any effect. As a test I used this overrides.zcml:
>
> Looking into the documentation it states:
>
> "The ``exclude`` standard directive is provided for inhibiting
> unwanted configuration. It is used to exclude processing of
> configuration files. It is useful when including a configuration that
> includes some other configuration that you don't want.
>
> It must be used BEFORE including the files to be excluded."
>
> So using it in an overrides won't work indeed.

That restriction pretty much makes the whole exclude directive useless 
in a modular system. In Plone I can probably get away with putting 
exclude directives in meta.zcml of my policy package since that should 
get loaded before Plone's configure.zcml, but generally that does not hold.

Wichert.