[z3-five] Question about skins usage

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> directives up into fragments built around granularity of reuse).  ZCML
> itself allows for only the crudest override mechanism.

That's sad, one of the big selling points for ZCML was that it was going 
to allow fine grained overriding of configuration, such as the binding 
of permissions to methods, without the need to fiddle with the product 
itself or copy-and-hack the whole product :-/

> This "proposal" obviously requires that parsing a ZCML file be free of
> side-effects, which was why Jim and Shane vetoed it at the time. 

Why does parsing have side effects? Surely that's almost as bad as 
importing a python package having side effects?

*grunt*

Oh well, I won't be able to contribute to this discussion for a few 
weeks, I hope it pans out well :-/

Chris

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