[Zope3-dev] Broader name for service managers

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 14:05, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> Right now, we have a notion of a service manager, which is where you
> manager services, but:
> 
> - A site is defined as a folder that has a service manager.
>    Service managers resemble CMF site objects, which contain CMF tools,
>    which correspond to Zope 3 services.
> 
> - Service manages *also* manage packages, which contain components and
>    component configurations. Packages aren'e really services. Packages are
>    used internally by service managers. They aren't used by regular
>    application code.
> 
> So the things currently called service managers do more than manage services.
> They also:
> 
> - Manage packages,
> 
> - Define sites.
> 
> It's tempting to call them site managers, or something else.
> 
> Thoughts?

I like the idea in principle, but I worry about mixing up Zope feature
names with actor names. I feel more comfortable calling Site Manager the
human who manages a Zope site (keeping in mind that one Zope instance
could have many such sites, and hence a number of those Site Manager
people :-).

Site Controler, maybe? or Site Master, Site Mangler ...

Or maybe we should just call it Control Panel and say that now you can
have as many of those as you want in your Zope. It's what people always
wanted isn't it?

Cheers, Leo

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