[Zope3-dev] Re: [z3-five] zcml questions

[Chris Withers]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote at 2006-9-25 18:44 +0100:
>> ...
>> Can we have a papal edict that zcml that has side effects is a bug?
>> (including the dotted name thing...)
> 
> Hm: the purpose of "zcml" is to have side effects (register things,
> patch classes with marker interfaces, add permissions, ...)

Yes, but this shouldn't be done at parse time, only at some later 
"realise" step once _all_ zcml has been parsed.

cheers,

Chris

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