[Grok-dev] libraries to use with Grok

[Kent Tenney]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
> Kent Tenney wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Santiago Videla
>> <santiago.videla at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>> I think that the list could become really large...
>>> megrok.*
>>> : http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=megrok&submit=search
>>> hurry.*
>>> : http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=hurry&submit=search
>>> dolmen.* http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=dolmen&submit=search
>>
>> I would welcome a brief description of the namespace collections, who is
>> behind them, a bit of history, target niche etc.
>> hurry, megrok, dolmen, zc, z3c, zope, repoze, lazr ...
>
> It'll have to go into another document, but here goes some sketch:
>
> First a general disclaimer: the namespace doesn't really *mean* all that
> much. The goal of having a namespace is to make it easier to create a
> package of some name without conflicting with another package. I.e. if
> we had no namespaces if I made a package 'resource' there'd be a good
> chance someone else would want to do the same thing, and what would we
> do then?
>
> zope.*: the namespace used originally by the Zope 3 project. Now the
> namespace of the Zope Toolkit. Generally core framework packages, though
> there's a lot of stuff that isn't.
>
> zope.app.*: the idea was to make the Zope 3-specific things reside here,
> the more general things in zope.*. This wasn't maintained very well, as
> nobody quite agrees on what is what anyway. Now it is a mostly
> deprecated namespace that contains the old Zope 3 ZMI user interface
> code. We've been moving more general stuff out of it into zope.*
>
> grokcore.*: bits of Grok that we've split out of it into more reusable
> libraries. The five.grok project uses the same libraries to enable Grok
> support in Zope 2.
>
> grokui.*: user interfaces for Grok. The admin UI and the introspector
> end up here.
>
> megrok.*: "Module Extension Grok". Extension code for Grok. Often
> depends on Grok itself, but note that due to Grok's splitting up into
> pieces this code only needs to depend on grokcore.* packages, and could
> be seen as more generally reusable.
>
> zc.*: a space for Zope Corporation to create packages in. There's a
> diverse collection of stuff in there.
>
> z3c.*: a space where the Zope 3 community started to place packages. A
> diverse colletion of stuff.
>
> hurry.*: I started using this for some Zope 3 extensions back in 2005 or
> so. I've continued to use this namespace in the last few years as well
> for some more code I've written. Again, a diverse collection of stuff.
>
> dolmen.*: Souheil has been using this namespace. Much of it, I
> understand, is to support CMS-like applications on top of Grok. Designed
> also be more generally reusable.
>
> repoze.*: the Repoze project is working in its own repository and
> generally Repoze-related libraries are in there. Contains WSGI-related
> packages and the BFG framework, and other diverse stuff.
>
> plone.*: some packages developed by the Plone project. Much of this
> relies either on Zope 2 and/or Plone, but some of it is designed to be
> more generally useful.
>
> collective.*: a general namespace used by the Plone community. Again,
> some of it is designed to be more generally useful, a lot of it ties
> into Plone, however.
>
> lazr.*: a namespace used by Launchpad developers at Canonical. Some of
> it is designed to plug into Zope Toolkit applications.
>
> five.*: generally used as a namespace to place in compatibility code, to
> help use Zope Toolkit or Grok related libraries in Zope 2.
>
> Can someone clean this up and create a document on grok.zope.org out of
> this?

Seems a likely candidate for wiki, the main page listing the
namespaces, each line has a list to a wiki page for that namespace.

Looking at http://grok.zope.org/documentation, I see a Plone page
using features I don't understand.

So, I was going to try my hand at a "About namespaces" page, but
it seems Grok doc is not aimed at wiki-style content additions from
the community.

Thanks,
Kent

>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
>
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