[z3-five] Does Five support Local Utilities?

[Chris Withers]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
>> Does Five support local utilities?
> 
> Short answer: yup.

Yay!

>> If so, what version of Five/Zope do I need?
> 
> Five 1.2 introduced a local site manager implementation with a much 
> simpler, but slightly weird API for easy component registration. At the 
> time, local utilities were really complex to do in Zope 3, so Five 
> certainly made it easier, but perhaps too easy. What Five does in 
> versions 1.2 thru 1.4 really is a cheat.
> 
> Zope 2.10/Five 1.5 allow you to use Zope 3.3's new local component 
> registries which make things vastly simpler in both Zope 2 and Zope 3. 
> And it's certainly cleaner in Zope 2, also because Zope 2 doesn't invent 
> its own machinery but uses the standard one from Zope 3.

Okay, what ships with Zope 2.9? (Since 2.10 still isn't out)

> Martin Aspeli and Hanno Schlichting have some good examples for local 
> utilities done the Zope 3.3 way. Search their blogs or wait for their 
> replies :)

Would be interested to see it. In particular, these utilities are along 
the lines of the catalog indexes example I gave on zope3-users, and so 
could be local to a single object. Is that supported?

cheers,

Chris

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