[Zope3-dev] Re: Problems with zope.app.module

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Gintautas Miliauskas wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have accidentally discovered today that the persistent module package
>> in Zope3 (zope.app.module) is in limbo, because the test suite was
>> referring to the wrong doctest.  As a result, the code was broken and I
>> even found a typo in the test code (which was how I discovered the
>> problem).
>>
>> I tried to get the code back up and running and partly succeeded, but I
>> did not manage to fix some important things.  For now I have commented
>> out parts of the test.  Maybe someone more knowledgeable could look at
>> the code?  There's more information in my commit message:
>> http://z3c.pov.lt/20050222111309.7D769203308@mail.zope.org
>>
>> The package is probably not that important as nobody had noticed the
>> breakage until now, but it shouldn't be that hard to fix.
> 
> 
> I would actually prefer to rip it out for now.  My work on rescuing
> ZClasses has convinced me that I want to take a different approach.
> 
> In fact, I'd like to rip out modules, page folders, site-management
> templates and any other support for creating TTW adapters or views.
> 
> We'll bring all of this stuff back later when we have time to do a good
> job on it.

+1

I know there will be proposals about all those things, but do you care 
to share your insights about that "different approach" now?

Philipp