[Zope3-dev] Re: zc.datetimewidget branch for zope2?

[Kapil Thangavelu]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:03:55 -0600, Rocky Burt <rocky at serverzen.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-24-11 at 19:19 -0600, Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
>> i was just curious if there were any objections to starting a branch of
>> zc.datetimewidget thats compatible with zope2, ie. doesn't depend on z3
>> request locales and zc.resourcelibrary. first cut at a diff attached  
>> which
>> works, w/ zope 2.9 and presumbly 2.10, still needs some  work for i18n
>> correctness, but having a useable datetime widget is really helpful to
>> z3/five adoption in z2.
>
> Personally I would prefer to see the bits that zc.resourcelibrary uses
> that don't work on zope2 abstracted out as adapters/utilities and see a
> five.datetimewidget that provides zope2 adatpers/utilities that make
> zc.resourcelibrary work.  Any chance of that working out ?

probably not, afaics. the inner mechanics of zc.resourcelibrary aren't  
easily ported to z2 till z2 uses z3 publisher (at least delegation to  
browserrequest factories) at which point there is no need for porting it  
as outside of this core functionality/integration there isn't much to  
zc.resourcelibrary, sans adapter delegation within z2 publisher for  
request/response its a non starter afaics without evil monkies. as regards  
zc.datetimewidget, without the resourcelibrary stuff, any use requires  
manual inclusion of all referenced resources, which is a serious caveat,  
but at least useable. the i18n/locale dependencies on the request in  
zc.datetimewidget could be abstracted out via adapters, but which are also  
obsolete if z2 could delegate to z3 publisher.request/response.

-kapil