[Zope3-dev] ZCML GUI

[Jim Fulton]

Lalo Martins wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:03:46AM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
> > "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
> > >
> > > But the two forms are isomorphic right?  I'd hope so.
> > >
> > > Somebody, please write the conversion tool now so everybody will be
> > > happy. :)
> >
> > Well, once things quieten down, I'm gonna see if I can throw some resource at a
> > GUI tool, then no-one need see what lies beneath ;-)
> 
> Yeah, as long as the GUI tool can run over a ssh line. (Anygui?) Otherwise,
> when you're doing emergencial maintenance you'll have to fall back on vi and
> then you'll just have to deal with zcml.
> 
> But I find it quite challenging to write a GUI editor for zcml when the main
> point of zcml is to be extensible, how are you going to represent
> user-defined directives?

I expect/hope to replace the current meta-configuration directives with
XML Schema. Then, any XML Schema-aware tool should be able to grok zcml
*with* extensions, defined via XML-Schema, with little help.

Jim

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