[Zope3-dev] ZCML, functional testing and buildout

[Jim Fulton]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 3:01 AM, Christian Theune wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> I think package-includes or something like an "egg basket" could be
>> useful for an application, like plone, that wants to support  
>> extension
>> by non-developers.  But for developers, I think direct zcml includes
>> is better.
>
> Ok, I've been starting to transform this in our project to this
> approach, and for that to work the instance recipe  needs to be  
> able to
> somehow involve the custom ZCML in the instance. You said you didn't
> like the package-includes, but IIRC you don't like skeletons  
> either. Am
> I missing something?
>
> (I've stripped everything down to a single package-include for now, so
> it keeps working for us.)

My intention, when I have time is to write a new Zope3 instance recipe
that takes a single zcml file that defines the application and that
doesn't do anything with package-includes or otherwise try to
emulate the existing site.zcml.

Jim

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