[Grok-dev] Re: Getting the application in views and viewlets

[Sebastian Ware]

19 jun 2008 kl. 19.41 skrev Martijn Faassen:

> Hey,
>
> Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Graham, patches are welcome. I think the getSite() approach might  
>>> be the
>>> best approach right now.
>> Or maybe a fallback approach? Register the application as a local
>> utility and if that doesn't work, log a deprecation warning and look
>> it up through getSite() and __parent__.
>
> Not a bad idea. One question is when we'd ever be free to remove the  
> fallback then. We'd still need to solve the upgrade problem.
>

Isn't this the same type of upgrade problem one has when adding  
indexes to an existing application. If it is, finding a nice and  
simple solution for these kind of upgrades would be a very big  
improvement.

Mvh Sebastian