[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope Configuration Processing and Side Effects

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> At:
> 
>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/ZopeConfigurationProcessingAndSideEffects
> 
> I've written an informational proposal stating the goal for
> eliminating side effects, other than import, during the first phase
> of configuration processing and generally minimizing first phase
> processing. This will lead toward refactoring most existing
> configuration directives.
> 
> I don't expect this to be controversial, but comments are welcome.

You only mention one example for side effects (putting a global object 
into a module and using them later), so I presume that the refactorings 
will mainly be targeting this case.

Do you already have specific plans on how to move the path 
resolving/validating into the handlers, and how to provide backward 
compatibility for 3rd-party directives? Right now the proposal is quite 
high-level...

Philipp