[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: Rename "principal" to "participant"

[Florent Guillaume]

Steve Alexander wrote:
>>Interesting. It looks to me like you're calling a User object what the
>>CMF calls a Member.
> 
> Sure.  Does the CMF have any users who aren't members?

The theory is a bit hazy but the practice is quite clear: in CMF all 
participants are members. The Member object is just a wrapping around the 
standard User object created during authentication. This wrapping is useful 
for annotations (email, last_login_time) and other indirections so that 
Member properties storage is actually dealt with by another tool (the 
MemberData tool).

Florent

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