[Zope-PTK] PTK II

[Dan L. Pierson]

Bill Anderson writes:
 > "Dan L. Pierson" wrote:
 > > 
 > > Bill Anderson writes:
 > >  > "Dan L. Pierson" wrote:
 > >  > > What is the difference between this and the Membership product effort
 > >  > > other than some minimal support for default acl_users membership?
 > >  >
 > >  > IIUIC, this would gain you the ability to have a portal site that can
 > >  > auth against an existing DB (SQL, LDAP, Radius, etc), and/or the
 > >  > portal specific users db (Persistent ZODB, etc).
 > > 
 > > Isn't this what UserSources (in the LoginManager that Membership is
 > > based on, or was last I looked) already give you?
 > 
 > 
 > I thought the comparison was between default acl_users and Membership?
 > default acl_users does not provide the aforementioned capability.

Actually, my comparison was between the membership part of Shane's
recent proposal (which added acl_users support) and Membership.  In
other words, isn't Membership an already existing sufficient
implementation of part of Shane's PTK breakup?

Shane has indirectly answered that by pointing out that his breakup
would remove the need to subclass User to obtain additional Member
information.  He's right, that would be a good change.