[Zope3-dev] Re: 'Folders', 'Sites' and customising Y's

[Jim Fulton]

Chris Withers wrote:

BTW, Thanks for keeping this discussion going. I know this must
be tiresome, but I think it's important.

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>>> X : Software Folder or Workspace Folder (I'm neutral as to which one 
>>> is better)
>>
>>
>> Well, if we go for "folder" I wouldn't use "workspace" as a modifier,
>> as that's really redundant.
> 
> 
> How so? a workspace folder is for working in, a plugin folder can be 
> moved around and installed elsewhere but not modified...

OK, but by that logic, content folders would be workspace folders too.

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>>> Yes, but this fails to cover the crucial point, IMHO. Someone 
>>> customises a Y (how will this work? I'm thinking the 'custom' skin 
>>> layer in CMF...) 
>>
>>
>> The normal way to customize a Y will be to ininstall (deactivate) some of
>> it's configurations and configure components from other Xs and Ys.  
>> When creating
>> these other components, they may copy selected components from the Y 
>> they are
>> customizing.
> 
> 
> Hmmm... how granular is 'component'? Down to a single page template or 
> script?

In practice, components will often be defined with individual templates,
classes, or with a template and a class, where the class may be shared among
multiple components.  I don't think that scripts will be used to
create components.

Jim

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