[Zope] Re: request.locale - do we have this in 2.9.4?

[Chris Withers]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> Funny, I've never used either in 6 years of zoping ;-)
> 
> Me neither, but are we prepared to break the apps of the people who do?

I'd assert that no-one does...

> (Btw, just thought of another one possible name clash: 'response')

no-one uses that is Zope 2 land 'cos of RESPONSE...

> I've thought about introducing the adaption approach now. I think we'd 
> be opening a can of worms since the request objects are likely to be 
> passed from old style code to new style code and vice versa.

I think it's worth at least trying...

> I'll repeat this again: Just because Zope 3 libraries ship with Zope 2 
> doesn't mean that everything from the 'zope' namespace has to work. Five 
> has never made that promise.

Indeed, but in this circumstance, they probably should ;-)

> That said, *if* we choose to go with such a configuration option, I 
> think it woudl probably be a good idea to have it disabled by default in 
> the first release and enabled in subsequent releases. That way 
> applications could opt in for the new behaviour earlier than necessary 
> (much like Python's __future__ imports).

OK, I'll buy that, annoying though it'll be for everyone (no-one has 
spoken up to say "you're gonna break all my code is you use debug, or 
locale, or response" ;-) )

Chris

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