[Zope3-dev] Re: Proposal, free views

[Tres Seaver]

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Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On 9/23/07, Roger Ineichen <dev at projekt01.ch> wrote:
>> Heads up,
>>
>> Please review this proposal.
> 
> OK. I have to admit that I don't fully understand it.
> 
>> This proposal describes a way to make the usage of such built in views optional.
> 
> "Such built in views" means what? "Optional" how? And why?
> 
> "The additional component.zcml could be used to include only component
> related configuration whitout the view parts defined in the
> browser.zcml. Because the browser.zcml get's included from the
> configure.zcml but not from the component.zcml"
> 
> OK, I understand what you want to do: Start the practice of having
> views in one zcml and components in another, so you can include only
> the component one if so desired. I don't understand why, though.
> 
> "Right now it's not possible to use another layout pattern without to
> support zmi_views and zmi_action and it's menut item pattern. The
> views defined in all packages also require the use-macro, fill-slot
> pattern which is not what we allways whant. Right now there is no
> option to get rid of this patterns except to duplicate packages and
> replace existing views."
> 
> That's what you will have to do anyway. Because if you don't include
> the views, you will have to replace them in another package. And you
> can override them in another package already...

You can override, but you can't "subtract" them.  Breaking the
configurations out into separate pieces allows finer-grained reuse.


Tres.
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