[Zope3-dev] Re: Mini proposal: simpify presentation-lookup api

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> So then we have getView and queryView, but we allow views of no
>>> objects and drop the whole resource term.  The problem with this is
>>> that we'd have to go through some extra deprecation hacks to
>>> gracefully migrate from old to new getView/queryView signatures.
>>
>> For whom do we need those deprecation hacks? 
> 
> People who've written applications on top off Zope 3, of which there are
> many.  This is a case where the help will be especially important, since
> we will be changing signatures of existing functions.

I just had an idea: If we call Presentators "Views", we could name the 
service View Service. That would make it possible to leave a facade 
Presentation Service for a certain time period behind.

Philipp