[Zope-dev] Dependencies on zope.app.appsetup

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 16 March 2009, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> > I saw that, on last sprint, the subscriber for error reporting utility
> > was moved from zope.error to zope.app.appsetup, so zope.error could
> > lose the dependency on zope.app.appsetup. So, the first question is:
> > do we want to move all subscribers like that? It doesn't seem like a
> > best solution though, because then zope.app.appsetup should depend on
> > all those packages, like zope.session. :-/
>
> We did run this into this issue at the last sprint. We analyzed cycles
> in package dependencies and decided this was a way to break these
> dependencies.
>
> I think it's less bad that zope.app.appsetup depends on a lot of
> dependencies than for zope.session to do so, at least if nothing much
> actually depends on zope.app.appsetup. After all, something setting up
> Zope 3 the application server will of course have to include a lot of
> packages...

BTW, +1.

zope.app.appsetup being a little bit of an all toppings pizza is okay. It's 
job is to wire things up. In zome respect it represents a basic Zope 3 app 
setup.

Regards,
Stephan
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