[Python-3000] Sane transitive adaptation

[Aahz]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
> I suspect that the perspective of people like Alex, Jim, and myself is
> distorted by our being in consulting organizations (like Strakt, my
> group at Verio, and Zope corp.) where the focus is on having a toolkit
> that can be used to produce *multiple* applications, or configurable
> applications.  Frameworks, in other words.

Well, that's my current job, too.  And we do a fair number of things
where adaptation or something like it might help.  However, my
perspective as a "peon programmer" is that such toys make it more
difficult to figure out what the system is doing.  (We have a fairly
elaborate plugin-and-hooks mechanism.)  I don't think adaptation by
itself would help much; at most it would change the framework structure
a bit.

I'm not arguing against adaptation, mind, I just wonder which people are
going to benefit.  Keep in mind that we're still stuck with Python 2.2 as
our limiting version and that our application was started with 1.4, so we
haven't really even thought of trying out new-style classes.
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