[Grok-dev] Viewlets: Check for availability

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

On 6/15/11 14:44 , Sylvain Viollon wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:10:20 +0200
> Jan-Wijbrand Kolman <janwijbrand at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/15/11 08:08 , Christian Klinger wrote:
>>> i think there were some discussions lately about this topic on a
>>> sprint. I don't know to which conclusions we come...
>>>
>>> For me i want to add a +1 for it.
>>
>> I think to remember we explicitly decided not to add this feature,
>> somewhere along the line of "different applications have different
>> needs in this regards, and it is easy to add yourself".
>>
>> Not sure anymore though.
>>
>> You suggestion apearts to be reasonable "safe" to add though. Thinking
>> about it now, I'd not be against it.
>>
>> BTW, I'm about to work on grokcore.view and grokcore.viewlet soon
>> anyway for content providers. I could try to include this suggestion
>> too.
> 
>   Honestly I use it at few places, and my customer needs it as well (on
>   plain viewlets).
> 
>   An available method on a Viewlet and check it in the filter of the
>   ViewletManager would be great. 
> 
>   +1 from my part, and +1 from the part of my customer so that makes
>   +2, and it is justified.

Checkin on the grokcore.viewlet trunk. I think the change is backwards
compatible. If you guys agree, I could create a release quickly.

regards, jw