[Zope3-dev] Configuration changes

[Jeffrey P Shell]

On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 02:57  PM, Jim Fulton wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Yesterday, Guido and I spent some time going over configuration
>> aspects of site development and he had a number of good ideas I'd like
>> to share and get feedback on.
>
> ...
>
>> Here are some of the ideas we came up with:
>
> ...
>
> Dang, I forgot the most imporatnt one:
>
> - Change the way configurations are created so that they start
>   from the thing being configured, rather than from the
>   configuration manager. For example, rather than walk up to a
>   configuration manager and elect to add a service configuration,
>   you would walk up to a service instance and elect to configure it.
>   Better yet, when you add a service instance, you will be given the
>   opportunity to configure it as part of the same step.
>
>   This approach has a number of advantages:
>
>   - It is simpler for the user, because they will usually want to
>     configure things when they create them.
>
>   - The add dialog will be simpler because you don't have to ask the
>     user what to configure.  And, when the configuration depends on the
>     interface of a component being configured, knowing the component,
>     greatly reduces the number of interfaces to select from.
>
> Thoughts?

On this particular one, an ecstatic (but quiet so as not to wake the 
dog) yay!  I got mightily disoriented wandering around the Alpha 1 UI 
in the services area.