[Zope-dev] [RfC] Removal of old stuff in Zope 2.10

[Tino Wildenhain]

Jens Vagelpohl schrieb:
> 
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> IMHO it would be nice if the HelpSys could be changed so that it  still
> provides those Help! links, but the product author can simply  assign a
> URL to them to point to a place where they copied and pasted  their docs
> into a website. That's not too much of an imposition on  product authors
> I think.

This was my first thought but then you have two problems:

1) online docs can be for new version while the user is for various
   reasons using older version - so the docs would not match either

2) privacy: this is the biggest issue - if someone clicks on the
   helpsys link (s)he transmits the url of the own ZMI via
   referrer (in 99% of all cases). This might be ok for zope.org,
   but I doubt this is ok for anybody elses website where who knows
   has access to the logs.
   I fear unless we play some ugly javascript games, there is no
   real way out of this. Maybe at least the url should be
   restricted to zope.org.