[Zope3-dev] Re: zope.app.schema (and other junk)

[Jim Fulton]

On Jul 18, 2006, at 6:34 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>> -=-
>>>> Modified: Zope3/branches/3.3/doc/CHANGES.txt
>>>> ===================================================================
>>>> --- Zope3/branches/3.3/doc/CHANGES.txt    2006-07-17 19:24:19 UTC
>>>> (rev 69162)
>>>> +++ Zope3/branches/3.3/doc/CHANGES.txt    2006-07-17 19:26:12 UTC
>>>> (rev 69163)
>>>> @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
>>>>
>>>>      Bugfixes
>>>>
>>>> +      - Fixed issue 604, Mutable schemas were accidentally  
>>>> included in
>>>> +        the 3.2 release even though they weren't ready and didn't
>>>> +        work. They are not included in the 3.3 release.
>>>> +
>>>
>>> I see you've removed the zope.app.schema package from the release. I
>>> don't think we can do that. The vocabulary registry that looks up
>>> vocabularies as utilities is located in there
>>> (zope.app.schema.vocabulary). It's a vital part for Zope 3.
>>
>> Hm. Why?  I don't really want something that is just an alternate
>> spelling for getUtility? Does it provide any value beside looking up
>> a utility?
>
> Say you have a schema with a Choice field that refers to a vocabulary.
> The field will use the vocabulary registry to look up the vocabulary
> (because zope.schema doesn't [want to] know about zope.component). You
> can plug in any vocabulary registry into zope.schema you like,
> zope.app.schema happens to plug in one that dispatches to a  
> getUtility call.
>
> Perhaps it might make sense to make zope.schema aware of  
> zope.component,
> at least optionally. The original author of vocabularies (I think  
> it was
> Gary?) didn't intend it to be that way, though.

OK, let's leave it for now then.

Jim

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