[Zope3-dev] Separate presentation packages

[Jim Fulton]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>So, I feel rather strongly that we should have packages like:
>>
>>folder
>>folder_browser
>>file
>>file_browser
> 
> 
> I thought people already said in another thread that they didn't like
> this. :)

Some people did, but I think we need more discussion.

> Python already provides a namespacing mechanism, involving the dot notation
> (foo.browser). You're inventing your own prefix based namespace mechanism 
> here. Prefix based namespace mechanisms aren't necessary in Python and
> seeing one is a bad code smell.

True, but then too much hierarchy is considered unpythonic. <shrug>

I have reasons why I thought this was better, twice, so I won't
repeat them.

Jim

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