i'm not saying anything about the status or beauty of code in the zope2 core. all i am saying is that PARENTS is used all over the place and taking it out would probably require some major work. so for me, combined with the fact that there is no definite statement anywhere about its deprecation, that means PARENTS is not deprecated. pretty simple, eh? jens On Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, at 18:11 US/Eastern, Florent Guillaume wrote:
Jens Vagelpohl <jens@ZOPE.COM> wrote:
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.
Frankly the base Zope 2 code is really not a reference on good usage, style, cleanliness or deprecation status... There's a huge amount of cruft there :-)
OTOH I don't have any opinion on whether or not PARENTS is deprecated.
Florent