[Zope-PTK] CVS update - Discussions, permissions fixed, more

[Paul Everitt]

I'd like to remind everybody that Mike has been doing a good job of
making sure the API documented in the 'interfaces' directory is
up-to-date before doing checkins.  Golf clap for Mike!  This is new
territory for Digital Creations. :^)

--Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Pelletier [mailto:mike@digicool.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:21 PM
> To: zope-ptk@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-PTK] CVS update - Discussions, permissions fixed, more
> 
> 
> 
>   Just a note to let folk's know what's been going on in the CVS this
> week.
> 
>   On Thursday, I commited the initial Discussions framework to the
> CVS.  There is some brief documentation in interfaces, expect it to
> get a bit more fleshed out next week.
> 
>   Two new mix-ins were created.  'Discussable' represents any resource
> which supports replies, and 'DiscussionResponse' represents the
> replies.  'Discussable' has been mixed in with PortalContent, meaning
> that all PTK objects can potentially be the root of a discussion.
> (This can be disallowed on a per-object basis by overriding a method.)
> 'DiscussionResponse' has been mixed with the PTK Document class in a
> new class called 'DiscussionItem'.  This is the class that is
> presently used for replies on the PTK.
> 
>   At the same time, the Toolbox protocol was extended.  Now, the
> toolbox will search an object's ancestory for additional
> toolbox_actions methods, and include the result of calling those in
> the object's toolbox as well.  This makes it much easier to factor
> behaviour out into mixin classes, and eliminates code duplication in
> the toolbox_actions methods.
> 
>   The last couple of days were spent fixing my botched permission
> code.  The result should be a much more stable and robust PTK.  I
> can't promise I haven't introduced new bugs in doing so.  In fact, I'm
> pretty sure I've seen one that I've since lost track of, so don't lose
> that Tracker URL.
> 
>   My next goals are to add Topics to the PTK (for those of you keeping
> score at home, it'll probably get pushed into the weekend) and to get
> rid of the need for PortalFolder.  I'm sure no one will mourn it.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Pelletier                          email: mike@digicool.com
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> 
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