[Zope3-dev] Re: Splitting package configuration

[Fred Drake]

On 5/23/07, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> Hmm, the use case for slugs was to support "application with separately
> installed extensions";  Fred, I think your view is prejudiced by the
> fact that you don't have any need for pluggability / extensibility.

Possibly so.  I'm certainly not building apps where "drop-in"
extensibility is as helpful as others are.

> Stephan is arguing for finer-grained configurations, which is likely to
> be better for reuse, at the cost of *reduced* convenience.

Yes, and that's fine for me.  What I consider an issue is that
changing the semantics of

    <include package="zope.foo.package"/>

is a change to the package's public interface.


  -Fred

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