[Zope3-dev] Re: Dependencie-handling

[Marcus J. Ertl]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:55:49 -0400 (EDT), R. David Murray wrote:

Hi!

>On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Marcus J. Ertl wrote:
>> I think it isn't that easy! For example: For my forum I will need:
>> [...]
>My point is that you should not be depending on *specific* other
>packages, but rather on Interfaces.

Yes, you are right! I didn't thought about this yet, but I need a
functionality, not a special implementation! Yes, I have to check for
interfaces!

>Checking is straightforward: try to access the Interface your package
>needs.  I don't think there is any more general way to do this,
>nor should there be.

Hmmm, yes!

>> - a commone way to tell the user/admin of them.
>Good idea.  I'm not up-to-date on all the new X3 features, but I
>don't think this is one of them.  Make a proposal <grin>.

Argh... sorry, I don't think I'm a very clever programmer or proposal
writer!

>> - zmi
>When instaling the package through the zmi, +1
>> - stdout
>-1
>> - logfile
>+1 (use the standard logging facility)

:-)

>> - a special logfile
>-1. But the package configuration/registration/whatever-it-is page should
>probably have these error messages.
>> - per mail to admin
>-1

Never thought about them as real alternatives

>Variations on this have been discussed, but I don't think anyone
>has done any coding yet.

*sight* 

Bye
   Marcus

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