have you ever grepped through zope's core to look how often it is used? i don't really care about discussion threads from over a year ago that have gone by and never come back, i look at CHANGES.txt, HISTORY.txt and the usage patterns in current code. i think that's a pretty accurate picture whether something is deprecated or not. jens On Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, at 12:03 US/Eastern, Chris Withers wrote:
Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
no, PARENTS is absolutely not deprecated. chris just likes to make blanket statements like that...
Of course, and I can never back them up ;-)
Dieter obviously read the same stuff I did: http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zpt/2001-December/002635.html ...maybe you could ask him where?
And of course there's the point you make:
if you read HISTORY.txt it mentions PARENTS in a single context: for user validation purposes the new REQUEST.PUBLISHED is preferred over pulling the published object out of REQUEST.PARENTS. ...why was this change made if there was nothing wrong with PARENTS?
Now that said, I agree with you that there's not much documentation on _why_ it was deprecated (if it was), and I can't find the discussions around the time when I remember it being deprecated(if it was) (my memory tells me the discussions were over a year ago...), which is a shame.
Still, I have memories of REQUEST.steps, REQUEST.PARENTS and various Virtual Hosting discussions around the same time, so maybe you can research further and prove me wrong, since you seem to take pleasure from that.
cheers,
Chris