[z3-five] Z2/Z3 skin integration, or, views and portal_skins.

[Lennart Regebro]

I had an idea, ad did some testing on this today.

Since the ZPT syntax is the same, it would be possible to make Zope3 
templates out of the templates in portal_skins. My first testing was to 
set a Z3 computed attribute on the skins, and then call the skin with 
use-macro="here/main_template/Z3/macros/master" instead of 
use-macro="here/main_template/macros/master". Lo and behold, it worked!

Now of course, any use-macro call in main_templates master macro, would 
fail. So what is needed is that this is done for all the filebased skins 
in portal-skins, and of course, in some nice cached way.

I can't figure out a good way to do that, so this may be a dead end, but 
I thought I should throw out the idea anyway, maybe it sparks some 
secondary ideas.


I also tried, vainly, to create a Zope2 pagetemplate that was viewed as 
protected code, and therefore would solve yesterdays rightsproblem, but 
I failed. If that was possible, that would also be one way forward for 
this integration.

//Lennart