[Twisted-Python] New components questions

[Christopher Armstrong]

Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
>>AFAIC, persist= argument to adaptation doesn't make sense and shouldn't 
>>be worried about much. Deprecated backwards compatibility would be 
>>*nice*, of course, but don't worry about it if it's a big problem and 
>>nobody pipes up about the fact they're using it.
> 
> 
> I have full backwards compat already, though I'd encourage people to use
> zope's code directly instead of the compat layer. Question is if this
> specific backwards compat feature can be dropped (this will allow
> Componentized to work with straight-off zope.interface correctly, right
> now it only works via backwards-compat code). That is, I am asking if
> persist=False can be dropped for Componentized.

I think so.

>>Is the current situation duplicating code? If a "registry" is basically 
>>just a big dict or something, then no big deal... but I think sharing 
>>code is a good idea, if there is a significant amount of code involved.
> 
> No, the zope.interface has the class definition for a registry,
> zope.component just adds a little utility wrapper around it and provides
> a global *instance* of the registry that apps can use.

Hmm. How about using their registry if it's available?

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