Re: Could it be possible to support configuring with *.cfg instead of *.zcml?

How is one more way of doing something with a different syntax to what is in all existent documentation going to make anything any easier? ;-) 

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On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Asko Soukka <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ahem, just continuing after accidental send:
> Asko Soukka wrote:
>> The benefit would be that add-on developer could write configure.cfg:
>>
>> [browser:page:uniquepostfix]
>> name = hello-world
>> for = *
>> class = .view.FooBar
>> permission = zope2.View
>>
>> instead of configure.zcml
> <configure
>      xmlns="http://namespaces.zope.org/zope"
>      xmlns:browser="http://namespaces.zope.org/browser">
>      <browser:page
>          name="hello-world"
>          for="*"
>          class=".view.FooBar"
>          permission="zope2.View"
>          />
> </configure>
> Cfg may not be significantly better than zcml, just not xml.
> What all issues would there be left to be solved?
> At least, cfg would be flatter. I have no idea, where directives inside 
> directives are really needed, so I don't know can everything be 
> implemented in cfgs.
> It should not difficult to support zcml:condition, so conditional 
> sections could be solved into conditional include-directives.
> Cfg-sections would need to be unique, which would require something 
> dummy after the directive name.
> Do we have any colliding namespaces, which would prevent fixing e.g. 
> that browser to always mean http://namespaces.zope.org/browser
> Directives ZCMLs are executed in order. Forcing order with cfg would 
> need something like "require = section:name" (like in puppet).
>> I made a very naive experiment:
>>
>> https://github.com/datakurre/collective.cfgconfig
> Cheers,
> Asko
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