[Zope-CMF] Re: Products-less python package support for CMF 1.6

Rocky Burt rocky at serverzen.com
Sun Jun 4 12:24:54 EDT 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-06 at 18:12 +0200, yuppie wrote:
> Rocky Burt wrote:
> > 
> > As of Five 1.4, the Five specific functionality has been merged into
> > Five itself.  As of Zope 2.10, the Zope specific functionality has been
> > merged into Zope itself.  So all that remains now is CMF.  The biggest
> > problem with CMF was CMFCore.TypesTool.listDefaultTypeInformation.  As I
> > know this is no longer used in CMF2 this *should* mean CMF2 is safe
> > (although I'd have to do further tests to confirm this).
> 
> AFAIK registerDirectory and registerProfile work only inside of 
> Products. I'm currently working on a fix for registerProfile.

Hmm... then perhaps I'll have more ahead of me still :(


> > What I would like to do is get CMF1.6's listDefaultTypeInformation fixed
> > so that people stuck on CMF1.6 can reap all of these benefits without
> > having to include pythonproducts.  One large beneficiary of this work
> > will be the Zope2.10 based Plone 2.5 combination which will be able to
> > do all of this without the need for pythonrproducts *if* CMF1.6 is
> > fixed.
> > 
> > Anyhow, I've included a patch that demonstrates what would need to be
> > done including some extra test logic that fails before my changes and of
> > course passes afterwards.
> > 
> > What do you all think?  Something we can include in time for CMF1.6.1
> > beta2 ?
> 
> I don't care much about CMF 1.6, but I wonder in which case your patch 
> is useful. Are you suggesting that people write cutting-edge 
> Products-less python packages and add deprecated fti data in those 
> packages to make it available through the deprecated 
> listDefaultTypeInformation method?

All of this work I'm doing is geared towards having Zope 2 developers
write code that is less Zope 2 specific and more python specific.
Nothing about bleeding edge, etc.  And there is going to be large
community of third-party app developers writing products against the
not-yet-released Plone 2.5.  But my feeling was that Plone wsan't the
only product based on CMF1.6 ... if it were then I could provide a
monkey right in plone but this is the absolute wrong approach imho.

Ultimately Plone needs to get to CMF2 and that will happen with Plone
3.0, but there were simply too many changes in CMF to allow Plone to do
that within the 2.5 timeframe.

Anyhow, I'm trying to make compromises to keep as many people happy as
possible.  Originally I wanted to add this to CMF 1.5.x as well :)


- Rocky

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