[Zope3-dev] Re: One namespace for ZCML

[Joseph Method]

Quick in-and-out from a lurker: yesterday as I was learning how to use
Five with Plone, I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool if there
were two directives, cmf:installable and cmf:registerContentClass?
This is from someone who's totally naive about zcml. Was this evil on
my part? Because the debate seems to be about behaviors that are
implicitly encouraged.

> Third-party packages which don't define new directives don't need their
> own namespaces.  If, for instance, Plone adds a "plone:view" directive
> which is nothing more than a no-op wrapper around 'browser:view', that
> would be a Bad Thing (TM).  If, however, they add a 'plone:frobnatz'
> directive which does something magical and outside the scope of the Zope
> core, and document how to use it when setting up Plone, that would be a
> Good Thing, especially if it kept people from changing "site policy" by
> customizing software.

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-J. Method