[Zope3-dev] proposal to extend meta.zcml files with documentation strings

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Braindumps are pretty hard to search. :-)  Could you point me to a
> specific message/thread?

"Configuration" :).  If you look at the July Transwarp archive, it turns
out that the subject headings make the relevant messages really obvious.

> AFAIK you can't modify the meta-directives for another package, you can
> only provide meta-directives that apply to the entire system.  Isn't
> that right?

You can't modify the meta directives that a package uses during
its own configuration, no.  But you *can* modify them after it
has set itself up (even without my changes to meta.py).  This is
different from the way directive overrides work.  I don't see
how it would be useful to modify directive setup unless those
directives were going to get used outside the package (from code
*using* the package), so this seems plausible to me.

> Sure, maybe you have some insights that will make the current system
> comprehensible.

Or if I can't manage that, perhaps at least decipherable with
moderate effort <grin>.

--RDM