On Thursday 14 November 2002 04:36 am, Steve Alexander wrote:

Casey Duncan wrote:

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It is only there due to lack of time to take it out. We had planned to take it out for 2.6, but time was never made to replace it with code to bootstrap an empty storage with the proper root level elements still residing in Data.fs.in.

IIRC, the proper root level elements are now created in code. However, various unit tests of zope and 3rd party products rely on having a Data.fs.in.

Most are, but some still are not (notably the standard_* dtml methods). Good to know that 3rd party products rely on it. I hadn't thought of that. Do you know of one specifically? -Casey