Re: Zope 4 roadmap
Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/2011 02:05 PM, Laurence Rowe wrote: > On 17 November 2011 15:23, Martin Aspeli <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 17 November 2011 14:46, Laurence Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> >>> - Move authentication out to WSGI middleware. >> >> +1 - anything we can do to make AccessControl simpler and more >> debuggable would be a big win. Note that there is a counter-trend here among the Pyramid crew: many developers *want* tight integration of authentication, particularly the login forms. >>> Long term --------- >>> >>> - Move to WebOb as our request object. The wider Python web >>> framework community seems to have settled on WebOb as their >>> request object of choice, so to facilitate sharing of software >>> components with other projects we should consider making WebOb our >>> request object too (instead of just wrapping it). This will >>> require buy-in from the wider ZTK community as the ZTK components >>> will need >> >> +1 BBB concerns are likely going to keep us from replacing the request entirely. What really matters for re-use is that our requests provide the same commonly-used subset of the WebOb request API. >>> - Move to Python 3. >> >> +0 > > I expect this will only become important several years down the line, > but the more we use other people's code who have already ported to > Python 3, the less code we will have to port ourselves. FWIW, the port to Python3 of substantial existing web framework code is already a dubious proposition: nearly everybody doing it these days is suffering pain (making their own code more complicated by straddling) in order to gain hypothetical future benefits. I would leave it off the roadmap completely until that landscape changes substantially. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7FZywACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6IcwCgsJ6yQsbLOwOJ18JnV51nxqAg hi4AoIFtnSJqWc5jCPrZdUEVQ1R9N6NO =gaBY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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 )