Ticket #548 (defect)

As discussed some times ago with fumanchu via email this little change does make much more sense IMHO and makes the hook more intuitive.

As you can see directly from the source code:

self.hooks.run('before_handler')
if self.handler:
   self.handler()
self.hooks.run('before_finalize')

I also renamed MainTool? to HandlerTool? since this is what it does, while doing this I was wondering if it could make sense to override the call method of the Tool class inside HandlerTool? to do what the handler method does now, so instead of doing this:

class Root:
 nav = tools.staticdir.handler(section="/nav", dir="nav", root=absDir)

you could do:

class Root:
 nav = tools.staticdir(section="/nav", dir="nav", root=absDir)

This is only an idea that doesn't make much sense most probably, fumanchu do you expect an HandlerTool? to be used as a decorator also? in this case it is worth keeping things as they are, I'm sure there is a good reason you made it that way that's why my patch doesn't change this aspect. ;-)