[Zope-dev] Revert removal of ++skin++ in Zope4?

Laurence Rowe l at lrowe.co.uk
Wed Nov 16 11:24:14 UTC 2011


On 16 November 2011 10:30, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to revert the removal of the ++skin++ traverser in Zope 4.
>
> As we're working on a replacement ZMI at a sprint currently (more
> details about that in a bit) we'd like to leverage this feature.
>
>  From my perspective, I value that Zope 2/4 has always made some choices
> upfront that one could leverage right away. Especially as multiple
> orthogonal components (like: your application and the ZMI) need to
> leverage this plugin point, I'd rather have this provided by the framework.
>
> I couldn't find an argument anywhere why ++skin++ should be gone.

It was removed in http://zope3.pov.lt/trac/changeset/122056 because it
wasn't actually being used anywhere. I'm not completely averse to
adding it back, but it does create confusion with the various
different alternatives in Zope2 like CMF skins and plone.browserlayer.

Laurence


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