[Zope-dev] refactoring site functionality

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi there,

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
[snip]
> For Plone we regret that we used persistent utilities to store
> configuration: they have made Plone instances much more fragile
> (removing a utiliy's implementation breaks the whole site) and forces
> you to write a UI for the stored configuration again and again. To move
> forwards we have come up with plone.registry (see
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.registry), which gives you a nice
> central storage system for configuration.

That's very interesting!

I can see the benefits of separating this out, though on the other hand 
it does introduce more indirection, which is a cost as well. And the 
configuration UI itself could become simpler or at least less scattered 
around, so that's a win.

I can see how this cost is worth it in large apps like Plone. I'm not 
sure about smaller apps, but could be a win too, as you could reuse the 
configuration UI. The costs can also be minimized with the use of a 
proxy (I saw you have one).

It's definitely an interesting approach. I'll be keeping an eye on it...

[it's licensed GPL at the moment the pypi page says. Is this going to 
change?]

Regards,

Martijn