[Zope-dev] Proposal: refactoring of zope.app.security

[Benji York]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Dan Korostelev <nadako at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/11 Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com>:
>
>> You should write up a short description of what zope.principalregistry
>> does. In fact whenever we propose a new package we should describe its
>> "mission statement" in just a couple of lines. That'll help us think
>> about it better.
>
> I'll add a short README.txt to each package. The
> zope.principalregistry is an non-persistent implementation of
> IAuthentication that allows us to define principals via zcml (the
> "principal" directive and company) or with simple python calls. It's
> also quite useful for tests.

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    Maybe we can use the "description" or "long_description" field
    in the setup.py for the "package mission statement"
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Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation