[Zope-dev] Re: Read-only root database doesn't work ... bug orfeature?

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 06:48:56PM +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
> >[Martijn Faassen]
> >...
> >
> >>I'm not sure whether the patch ever could've worked. Firstly, the rich
> >>comparison operations were never called; I think perhaps due to some
> >>limitation in ExtenionClass.
> >
> >
> >ExtensionClass doesn't play well with many "newer" Python class features.
> >Rich comparisons are one of them.
> 
> That's what I figured, thanks Tim for confirming it.
> 
> Anyway, I think I fixed at least the matter for field help topics in a 
> much simpler way, though I don't know whether other sections don't do 
> ZODB writes either on startup. If it's in the normal Zope help 
> registration then we have a bigger problem. :)
> 
> The fix is in the latest Formulator CVS; Paul, please test it if you can 
> and let me know if you still see the untowards behavior.

It seems good, thanks!!!!!!

Now I've discovered a few more products that are read-only-incompatible :-(
CMFCalendar and (eek) CMFCore. 
I'll look into those and see if a similar fix will help.

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Paul Winkler
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