[Zope-dev] Simplifying dependencies of zope.app.publisher

[Martijn Faassen]

Hey Fabio,

Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> I'm sorry if I am flooding the list with all my requests/messages, but I
> don't want to introduce changes without approval of more experienced zope
> developers.

A belated +1 to discussing things, and +1 to doing work. :)

> I was analyzing zope.app.publisher, and I found that it would be possible
> to remove its dependency on zope.container because the latter is only used
> in zope/app/publisher/xmlrpc/configure.zcml to declare thee views like
> this:
> 
>   <view
>       for="zope.container.interfaces.IItemContainer"
>       type="zope.publisher.interfaces.xmlrpc.IXMLRPCRequest"
>       provides="zope.publisher.interfaces.xmlrpc.IXMLRPCPublisher"
>       factory="zope.container.traversal.ItemTraverser"
>       permission="zope.Public"
>       />
> 
> I think these snippets should me moved to zope.container's configure.zcml,
> where we already have other traversers.
> 
> Do you agree with this change?

I remember looking at this relationship in the past but I don't remember 
  noticing it was this easy. If this looks possible, by all means go ahead.

Regards,

Martijn