[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] Why is contentItems public?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

> We should *not* be attempting to fix poorly-designed applications by 
> modifying security declarations.  Any application which is using 
> 'content*' (or 'object*') to display folder contents should be 
> disabled for large enough folders (a catalog query using a path 
> expression and a sort limit will typically do the job better, anyway).

That's a good point. But just considering the fact that "object*" and 
"content*" now behave differently because one set *has* docstrings 
there is already some value in removing this difference. And that's a 
tiny and sensible problem scope ;)

jens

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