[Zope-CMF] Re: Conflict between PortalFolder and CMFBTreeFolder

Jens Vagelpohl jens at dataflake.org
Mon Jun 20 05:12:10 EDT 2005


On 20 Jun 2005, at 09:24, Christian Heimes wrote:

> yuppie wrote:
> > First of all CMF 1.5.2 has to be backwards compatible to CMF  
> 1.5.0 and
> > 1.5.1, so reverting that change is no option.
>
> That is understandable from your point of view but I don't agree  
> with the desicion. The new ordered PortalFolder has deep impacts on  
> software that exists for years and depend on PortalFolder to be a  
> subclass of Folder w/o order support. This includes BTreeFolder2,  
> Archetypes and all Archetypes based products. Archetypes  
> distinguishes explictly between BaseFolder and OrderedBaseFolder.

On a general note, if this is so important I am puzzled that this is  
coming up now and not *months* ago. CMF 1.5.0 has been released ages  
ago. Beta testing periods are the time to find and solve these  
problems, not the middle of the maintenance release cycle...

jens



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