[Grok-dev] Neanderthal II possible sprint topics

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

Souheil CHELFOUH wrote:
> About the possible topics, I'm concerned into bringing more consistency 
> into all the grok related packages (grokui.admin, for instance), 
> concerning the events and the pluggability of the components.

> In Grok, we lack many events in our application life cycle to be able to 
> plug custom tools. For instance, IObjectCreatedEvent is not called on 
> the application on creation. Also, if you want to do operations at the 
> application creation that uses the Catalog or the IntIds, you can be 
> stuck because of the order the events are fired (if you want to populate 
> your application when you create it, for instance, the IntIds utility 
> might not be registered yet and therefore your objects are not 
> registered there) . We need more comprehensive hooks on this side.

That sounds cool. What I think would be interesting also is to think 
about a minimal admin application with minimal dependencies: just enough 
to get something installed but without pulling in the introspector and 
all that it depends on. We could extract this from grokui.admin, I hope. 
Perhaps we can also explore command-line approaches for installation, 
which might be convenient for server deployment (where you'd preferably 
not have grokui.admin there).

Years ago we discussed the model where the application is the top-level 
of the URL space, instead of having a special step in the middle where 
the application can be installed. I still think that Grok should support 
the more flexible use case, but I think we should at least explore how 
we might be able to make that work. Something like Django supports 
multiple applications (at least so they call it) in a larger app - 
perhaps we can investigate that model.

Regards,

Martijn