[Zope3-dev] Re: Better access to APIs in paths (was Re: needingviewsclues - template/title troubles)

[Jim Fulton]

Shane Hathaway wrote:

...

> The transition from Zope 3.1 to Zope 3.2 might change the signature of 
> an important API function. 

That should be disallowed.

 > Given a bunch of templates, how can I know
> whether they are compatible with both versions of Zope? 

You'd know because APIs would be backward compatable.

 > Wouldn't
> namespaces make that job easier?

Only at the expense of a lot of extra complexity.

You want:

   context/foo:bar

to be able to have a different meaning depending on the version of Zope,
by virtue of using different namespace declarations.  While that is
flexible, I don;t think it would be a good thing.

Jim

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