[Zope3-dev] Re: Adaptergeddon follow-up tasks (looking for volinteers)

[Jim Fulton]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> I got adaptergeddon to the point where the major refactoring was done and
> I could merge the big changes.  There are a number of follow-on tasks that
> others could help out with.
> 
> 1. Expand the component-architecture API to take advantage of new features
>    of the adapter and view services:
> 
>    a. Specify provided interface when looking up views and resources

Done

...

> 2. Extend the ZCML view and resource directives to specify provided 
> interfaces.

Done

> 4. Convert the traversal view registrations and lookups to use
>    unnamed views that provide interfaces.
> 
> 5. I think that there's an opportunity to improve the widget-related
>    frameworks by specifying provided interfaces for widgets. Perhaps the 
> different
>    widget types (e.g. edit, display, hiddem, etc.) should be 
> distinguished by interface
>    rather than by name.
> 
> IMO, tasks 1a and 2 are the most important and urgent, as they are 
> prerequisites

which is why I did them. :)

> for 4 and 5.

So, I hope we can get started on them.

> Task 5 is really a project that should start with a proposal, and, 
> perhaps a
> draft widget-development guide.

I think we can improve things quite a bit by defining widgets as
unnamed views providing interfaces.

Jim


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