[Zope3-dev] Re: deprecate ++etc++site/default?

[Christian Zagrodnick]

On 2007-06-19 14:46:55 +0200, Stephan Richter 
<srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu> said:

> On Tuesday 19 June 2007 06:16, Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
>> as far as I am informed it's no longer suggested to put utilities etc.
>> into the default package since the whole package mechanism was not the
>> right idea.
>> 
>> One point to change would be zope.app.appsetup.addUtility which puts
>> the utilities into the default package. It should add the utilities
>> directly to the site manager.
>> 
>> What are the oppinions here?
> 
> I have suggested this before, but back then we decided to leave things 
> as they were. Maybe the time has come to change that.
> 
> Having said that, this change would break a lot of code, including all 
> opf my projects, since I do not use zope.app.appsetup.addUtility. Since 
> we are not working with egg-based releases yet, BBB must be provided. 
> Depending on how good the BB is, this could be an easy or very hard 
> task.

Just to make it clear: I don't want to take addUtility away. I want to 
change the behaviour of addUtility.

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