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

[Martijn Faassen]

Benji York wrote:
> 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.
> 
> <bikeshed>
>     Maybe we can use the "description" or "long_description" field
>     in the setup.py for the "package mission statement"
> </bikeshed>

Well, eventually this will presumably be part of the README.txt which 
typically ends up in the long_description. But if no such README.txt is 
there, sure.

Regards,

Martijn