[Zope3-dev] Zope 3 Questions

[Jim Fulton]

Mark McEahern wrote:
> [Jim Fulton]
> 
>>You notice that contacts have a new field that needs to be
>>edited. You will update your editing view to reflect this, but,
>>until you do, you make the new editing view active, rather than your
>>view.  Later, you update your view and make it active again.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, Jim!  I just have one minor question.  In the
> above description, does Zope 3 do a diff between your update and the new
> view (or between the original view and the new view) to facilitate the
> update?  I realize the diff may not help if the two are radically different,
> but in the case you mentioned, a new field, I can at least imagine the patch
> being displayed, reviewed, and applied all with help from the framework.

No, the analysis is only of the configuration changes.

I suppose a source diff could be made available as an option.

Jim

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