[Zope-CMF] Re: GenericSetup: purging steps on new base profile

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Wed Mar 29 01:44:50 EST 2006


On 3/28/06, Rob Miller <ra at burningman.com> wrote:
> i, on the other hand, am very interested in being able to see which
> profiles have been applied.  i don't think it's unreasonable to record
> and expose this.  of course this can't be treated as the final word on
> the current site configuration, but just because someone may have done
> further manual configuration doesn't seem to me a good reason to make it
> harder to figure out which profiles have been applied in the first place.
>
> i'm going to cut a branch to experiment a bit w/ implementing this.  in
> the meantime, this conversation can continue.  if the consensus ends up
> being against these features, i can put any code from the branch in at
> the Plone level.

I completely agree that there should be a list of which profiles that
have been applied. It's a basic usability and support feature. People
say "Eh, we get an error", and we ask them "did you apply this
profile" and they go "I don't know". We want them to know. :-)

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