-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Hammond wrote:
Well, Zope moved onwards from PAS to PAU
I doubt that seriously: I would venture that there are two orders of magnitude more users of PAS than PAU in production deployments. PAU was an attempt to port the PAS to a "component-centric" implementation, but it lost at least a couple of key features along the way: most notably, the ZCA provides no way to control the ordering of the invocation of the plugins.
and I think Plone should too,
- -1. I can see no benefit, except the myth (in the technical, anthropological sense) that a Z3-based rewrite of any arbitrary component must be superior to the thing it rewrites.
because:
It seems like just yesterday that PAS offered the promise of being the nice clean way forward for authentication, and even offered a path to Zope3. I've been subscribed to zope-dev since then, but somehow the anointing of PUA escaped my attention.
It seems like plenty of people in these -dev communities aren't aware the world has shifted again under them, so I pity the poor soul who attempts to use/install/configure this software.
PlonePAS still has some rough edges, as do some of the available plugins, but the underlying PAS is still a pretty nice way to do "local" user folders.
I am writing a PlonePAS plugin, that makes the world of PAU available to Plone
Hopefully you will finish by the time PAU is considered ugly/unpythonic/whatever enough to replace <wink/sigh>
The sands constantly shifting under our feet sounds like a much bigger problem than whatever was wrong with PAS, or whatever will be decided is wrong with PUA (and repeat ad-nauseam for the variety of successors.)
Heh, you sound almost as much like an "old fart" as I do. :) Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIePdV+gerLs4ltQ4RAqUyAJ0VVg2n2xydtNwlMR2WvF8JAJKoXQCfa60M Mrsp26qNnmHxOkjsG90SaJ8= =e2pa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----