Gareth Bult wrote:

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Actually, this should be rejected. A Zope object without a meta_type has some pretty serious issues ;-)

Interesting statement - not that I disagree .. but my question is - does a Zope that crashes when it could (with a one-line change) be made not to crash have *more* serious issues ? (I guess developers are going to say "no", but I'm a user - I say "yes" !)

your suggested one line change could have implications such as reduced data integrity and other unexpected behaviour. So, I'd say "yes" too, except your one-line change makes things worse ;-)

fyi; Not that I'm saying it's a proper solution or one that should be implemented, but I've seen no ill effects in 5 months and around 3 million hits re; the suggested patch. (which for me is one up on repeated nasty site crashes .. )

*shrugs* I'd personally prefer to make the one line patch in the product that's missing a meta type in it's class definition ;-) Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk