Re: ZMailman classes

Brent M Hendricks <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:20:05 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zmailman
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stephan Richter wrote:

>> - ConfigManager and even more so ListManager strike me as generally 
>> useful.  If we cleaned these up and removed the Zope-specific stuff 
>> perhaps these could be added to Mailman?  Barry?
> 
> 
> Yeah, I plan to do even more abstractions. We will see after 
> Christmas... a lot should change.


Any cool ideas/plans in a coherent enough state to post to the list?

>> - We need a consistent naming scheme.  The reason for calling it 
>> "ZMailList" is probably because there is already a "MailList" class. 
>> But then I think we should stick with that convention and have 
>> "ZMailmanFolder" and "ZMember".
> 
> 
> I agree. However, we should use ZMM as pre-name, since there might be 
> somewhen another ZMember. Therefore, we should start naming it: 
> ZMMFolder, ZMMMailList, ZMMMember, ...


Good plan.  I can ahead and rename the files, unless you want to do it 
directly in the CVS repoisitory

-- Brent

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