[z3-five] Using Zope2 page templates with Five

[Martijn Faassen]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> Thanks to Dieters TrustedExecutable modules, I was able to replace the 
> Zope3 page template files in five with trusted Zope2 page template 
> files. This has several benefits:
> 
> 1. Suddenly, i18n works! Horray!
> 2. We no longer need the pagesFromDirectory statement.

Cool!

> Silvio suggested this before, he told me, and that this was said not to 
> be a good idea.
> 
> Q1. Could somebody explain why it's not a good idea?

Who is Silvio?

For Zope 3 forward compatibility it'd be better to use the Zope 3 
engine. The ZPT engines are very similar, but there are some 
differences. Then again, for Zope 2 backward compatibility the Zope 2 
page template engine is better. It depends on what weighs more strongly 
  with Five..

> He also suggested that it could be made a runtime ZCML statement which 
> type of template you want the page statement to create. I agree with 
> this, but I don't know how to make that type of configuration statement.

You mean a configuration knob for a particular page template 
declaration? I'm not sure whether we want to provide this kind of 
option. I think it's better to pick one and go with it for now, unless 
we have strong reasons to want both options.

> Q2. Could somebody point me to a statement that does something similar? 
> Then I can RTFC and do this.
> 
> A discussion on whether this is a good path forward or not would be 
> good. I'm certainly much more happy with this possibility.
> 

That's my input. :)

Regards,

Martijn