[Zope-dev] Zope2: Reducing C dependencies

[Wichert Akkerman]

On 3/30/10 16:56 , Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> Hi.
>
> For Zope 2.13 (trunk) I'd like to try to reduce the C dependencies of
> the Zope2 distribution itself. Ideally it would not have any C
> dependencies in its own distribution, but that's a bit too much for
> now.
>
> As a next step I'd like to split out the initgroups, Missing,
> MultiMapping, Record and ThreadLock packages into their own
> distributions. The code in these hasn't changed in years and I don't
> see this changing anytime soon.
>
> If this is done the remaining C libraries are in AccessControl,
> DocumentTemplate and ZCTextIndex. AccessControl has a reference
> implementation in Python and could the C library could be made an
> optional optimization. The ZCTextIndex okascore.c and stopper.c should
> also be relatively easy to do as Python implementations.

All of those are quite stable as well, aren't they? What is the 
rationale for not splitting those out?

Wichert.