Re: Non-ZCML config for ZCA. (Was: Anyone want to do Google Summer of code mentoring for PSF?)
Martijn Faassen <[email protected]>
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On 03/21/2011 04:08 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Martijn Faassen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 03/21/2011 03:28 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: >>> I don't know what the right answer is ... at least not yet. :) >> >> In Django and sqlalchemy declarative a meta class is used for this kind >> of configuration. Since that is subclassing, it implies inheritance, I >> think. > > Ick. > >> Of course metaclasses are not very good for this as they're surprising >> in other ways > > Agreed. Martian allows you to use a similar spelling to metaclasses (base classes), without the weird surprises during run-time (after configuration is already done), and without significant import-time side-effects. With megrok.rdb I actually use SQLAlchemy declarative without their declarative metaclass, as the SQLAlchemy folks were kind enough to tweak their config code so I could call it directly from a grokker. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )