[Zope-PAS] Re: Authentication caching

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Stefan H. Holek wrote:
> The main idea of my branch is to have all caching in PAS, so that  
> individual plugins do not have to concern themselves with ZCacheable.  
> I don't think it makes PAS more clumsy, it's just a few lines after  
> all, but it makes auth plugins easier to write.

Having all caching complexity in a single location sounds a lot more
sensible than implementing caching in all plugins. 

Wichert.

> On 19. Aug 2006, at 17:29, Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> >Can you hold off a bit?  I'm travelling and would like to have time to
> >look at the patch more carefully.  Overall, I *thin* I would like to
> >keep the caching itself out of the framework, because it is completely
> >irrelevant for lots of plugins, and introduces complexity / overhead.
> >
> >An alternate idea I had was to implement a 'CacheablePluginHelper',
> >which would wrap another plugin, providing caching.  It might be
> >possible to make it generic (like the ScriptablePlugin is).
> 
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