[Zope-dev] Zope.pipeline proposal

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

One issue I have with using paste deploy's pipeline configuration for 
"endware" is that such configuration sometimes really wants to be part 
of a library. I.e. I don't want to configure a tower of endwares each 
time I write an application, I want to reuse some premade configuration 
that comes along with some released library.

This as opposed to middleware. The middleware is generic across WSGI 
servers and the person who decides to use it is frequently the 
developer. That said, there's likely a grey area between the two.

Perhaps there's a way you can use paste's mechanism and ship it in a 
library. If not, you'll end up stacking together WSGI's in Python code. 
I can then see the benefit in a declarative version of this that can 
ship along with a library. With the right application of grokkers that 
could probably be made to look very compact too. :)

Regards,

Martijn