[Zope3-dev] would like a "package" for registerTranslations directive

[Jim Fulton]

Stephan Richter wrote:
> On Thursday 24 June 2004 07:25, Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
>>I looked at adding a 'package' attribute to the registerTranslations
>>directive, but it isn't straightforward.  Specifying a package is easy:
>>I can just add a GlobalObject field to the metadirective schema.
>>However, I don't know a good way of getting this package taken into
>>account when the 'directory' attribute's Path field gets processed.
>>
>>How would I best go about writing a metadirective that has a 'directory'
>>attribute and an optional 'package' attribute, where if a relative path
>>is given for the 'directory', it would be considered relative to the
>>package?
> 
> 
> You want to look at the "include" directive. It is in 
> zope.configuration.xmlconfig starting on line 290. There the file is simply 
> treated as a bytesline instead a path, which I think is the way to go. It 
> also shows you how to merge the package info and the path part.
> 
> BTW, I am all for doing this enhancement.

You could just wrap the registerTranslations directive in a configure
directive and specify the package in the configure directive.

Jim


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