[Zope-dev] zope.app.authentication

Christian Theune ct at gocept.com
Tue Jan 26 02:53:25 EST 2010


On 01/22/2010 07:59 PM, Souheil CHELFOUH wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I'm coding some stuff, using zope.app.authentication and this package
> appears to do too many things, in my opinion.
> Would it be wise to cut off some of the functionalities ? The pure PAU
> components could go in a dedicated package, like
> zope.pluggableauthservice
> The whole handling of principals, groups and folder makes it a bit
> hard to read and introduces a lot of redundancy if we wish to roll our
> own things.
> What do you guys think ?

Yeah, I think it would be nice to give that code a refactoring. Whenever
I work with it I feel the urge to do so.

There's also subtle API annoyances that I'd like to get rid of but don't
remember exactly right now.

How about a specific proposal?

Christian

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