[Zope3-dev] Permission volunteers?

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:

>> Hmm, what I'd like is ALL the mapping on permissions to the attributes 
>> they protect (do permissions protect anything else?) to be done in 
>> ZCML, with users having the ability to override by write ZCML snippets 
>> in their own packages.
>>
>> Does that equate to what you said?
> 
> Not sure what you mean by "users" and "packages" above.

users = people installing products, or people writing packages

packages = whatever Zoep 3's equivalent of a Zope 2 product was.

> Developers write default configs, including permission->attribute
> assignments, for their software in ZCML.  (The only exception to this
> is occasionally, developers will declare zope.Public for some attrs
> on some types, typically standard types, in Python.)

Right.

> An installer, the person who installs Zope and one or more things
> products, should be able to override permission assignments in some
> systematic way.

What would that systematic way be? ZCML?

Chris

-- 
Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting
            - http://www.simplistix.co.uk