I wrote:
If a folder doesn't itself contain a required object or method, I'd like to have another folder looked in instead. The fall-back folder won't necessarily (and often can't) be higher in the hierarchy, so acquisition doesn't seem to be a solution.
Jeff Hoffman wrote:
I assume your aim is to create a 'baseline' site with a number of customized copies. If you change the baseline, the changes are reflected in its instances, unless the instance has overloaded the changed aspect.
Exactly so.
I would be interested in pursuing and contributing to an effort to do the Hard Thinking this will require, done correctly.
That would be great! Have you seen Steve Alexander's reply to my post? I'm relatively new to Zope development (though with a fair amount of experience in Python), so I'd welcome the insights that others more experienced than me would bring. Hamish Lawson University of St Andrews, Scotland ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie