[Zope3-dev] Re: Reducing the Amount of ZCML Directives ready for review

[Jeff Rush]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 
>>>The case of class/factory is arguable, I admit. However, there I'm just
>>>following the rule of a) defining things in Python and registering them in
>>>ZCML and b) use more basic ZCML directives, less special ones.
> 
> I think we could argue the following equally well:  if you find a
> directive unuseful, *just don't use it*.

Such a practice, while allowing co-existence of different viewpoints, 
hinders reuse of components among different developers.  If a pool of 
independent components use different directives to accomplish the same 
thing, to integrate them into my project I need to understand how most of 
those directives work.

Parties ignoring differents sets of directives encourages islands of 
development and henders communication.

-Jeff