Hello, I am working on a 'light' version of Zope, where all deprecated things are removed (and maybe other less useful things). Although this is probably not convenient for the main part of Zope developers, this has some benefits for our internal project, and probably for other people: - easier to learn Zope for a newbie, when you keep only up-to-date packages, - find directly the right way to do something, without trying too much deprecated things, - no useless packages loaded at startup, so application is quicker to start, - less code to take into account and maintain, - less disk usage (if you need to burn your application on a CD-ROM or USB-disk)
To achieve this 'light' application, I've listed all the things I start to remove on my sandbox, and I've evaluated the easiness to do it. * Easy to remove (18 packages): (zope.app) annotation, content_types, copypastemove, datetimeutils, decorator, dublincore, filerepresentation, location, mail, pluggableauth, rdb, servicenames, site, size, tests, timezones, traversing + zope.modulealias => only need to remove ZCML include directives * Harder to remove (3 packages): zope.app.introspector (=> need to change permission within apidoc.codemodule) zope.app.layers, zope.app.skins (=> see proposal below) I propose to patch the 'trunk' in order to allow removing of these packages. Here are the proposed changes: - catch 'ImportError' when we make use of zope.app.skins - introduce ZCML feature 'deprecatedlayers' which is 'on' by default and can be disabled - add a 'zcml:condition="have deprecatedlayers"' on each <layer> directive And for zope.app.introspector, i see 2 choices: - either replace the "zope.app.introspector.Introspect" permission with a "zope.app.apidoc.UseAPIDoc" permission, - or use a feature "have/not-have deprecatedintrospect" to select which permission to use. I've implemented and tested this: All unit/functional tests pass OK. It remains backward-compatible Moreover it helps to track down some deprecated things: I fixed 2 bugs, when implementing this change on my sandbox; see rev. 70065 (zope.app.testrecorder) and 70081 (zopeskel/etc) What is your feeling about commiting this change on the trunk? Regards, -- Florent _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com