[Zope3-dev] RFC: death to getView, getDefaultViewName, and getResource

[Gary Poster]

On Wednesday 15 May 2002 06:53 pm, Tres Seaver wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 18:21, Gary Poster wrote:
> > I think I noticed absolute url was implemented as a view; I thought it
> > was an odd choice, but is there a good reason for it to be a view?  If
> > so, whatever the reason is might be an argument to keep the non-request
> > version.
>
> Unlike physical path, 'absolute_url' needs to be adjusted to correspond
> to any virtual hosting which is in place;  hence, it depends on the
> request, and is therefore a view.

Ah.  Makes sense.  Thanks.  

And to the question at hand, it therefore seems to provide no argument to 
keep the questionable functions.

Gary