[Zope3-dev] Death to "Views" package.

[Guido van Rossum]

[Jim]
> > At this point, it's worth asking whether it would be better to
> > avoid the view-specific subpackages altogether, although I still
> > find them useful.

[Stephan]
> Right now the Views Package and even the Browser package in it seem
> like an overdose, simply because we only create Browser views at the
> moment (maybe a couple FTP ones). But once we start building more
> frontends (View types) for Zope, such as XML-RPC, SOAP, XUL, or
> wxWindows my fear would be that the Packages become bloated by
> Views.
> Now, that might certainly not be a beating argument for removing the
> Views Package, but it is certainly a strong argument for leaving the
> Browser package.

May I quote the Zen of Python:

  Flat is better than nested.

I find that too much nesting detracts from seeing what's there.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)