[Zope3-dev] Re: AW: Proposal, free views

[Martin Aspeli]

Roger Ineichen wrote:

>> * Simply *ignore* that they exist. Zope actually has 
>> facilities for doing this on a technical basis. Simply don't 
>> inherit your skin from IDefaultBrowserLayer, and voila, you 
>> won't get any pre-configured views at all.
> 
> I can't have unused code in our codebase. We have swiss banks
> as customers and can't pass their security assesment with such 
> a setup. Belive me, it's not easy to fit their needs.
> 
>> * If you're interested in replacing a few select views with 
>> your own implementations, you can use ZCML overrides. Or use 
>> layers (which is a similar solution to the previous one).
> 
> Same here, we can't have unused code in our codebase. This will
> increase the security assesment and I don't like to write more
> documentation for them.

I assume you mean you can't have any unused component active/registered. 
The code is still going to be there, unless you fork Zope 3 and remove 
the files you don't need, in which case this proposal isn't going to 
help you much anyway.

I think it makes sense to introduce a pattern that makes it easier 
choose which components you need. However, if I understand you correctly 
(and I second Philipp here - the proposal is confusing as it's worded 
now), you're talking about refactoring the ZCML of every package that 
uses browser components. I understand there's full backwards 
compatibility (via includes into the root configure.zcml), but it's 
still a slightly risky and time-consuming dance.

Martin

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