[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 Newsletter: Issue 10

[Chris Withers]

seb bacon wrote:
>> Sorry, but you can't start off with that as a premise and, at ANY 
>> level, expect to not end up with an unmaintainable mess at some point.
> 
> But an unmaintainable mess which works now is often preferable to an 
> elegant structure which works in 6 months' time.

That's not a view I share ;-)
The overhead of producing something elegant first time round is small enough, 
for me at any rate, that I don't see the need to ever create a mess...

> Perhaps a better question is, how can we make it easy to refactor?

Indeed!

> Actually, I Shane's comments about persistent modules seem right on target:
> 
>  > we should provide a simple UI for site developers to write persistent 
>  > modules.  Then we should provide an easy way to call persistent
>  > modules from templates; the new prefix stuff should be pretty
>  > effective for that.
> 
> Wouldn't this provide the best of both worlds?

Yup :-)

Chris