[Zope-CMF] Uploading news items with FTP

[seb bacon]

* Jeffrey P Shell <jeffrey@Digicool.com> [010424 17:25]:
> On 4/24/01 10:49 AM, "Shane Hathaway" <shane@digicool.com> wrote:
> 
> > PortalFolder.PUT_factory will, in the (hopefully near) future, invoke the
> > portal_types tool to decide what kind of upload it is.  Really the only
> > thing holding it up is a decision on the UI for configuring the upload
> > behavior.  Perhaps we should just make it a configurable script similar to
> > this:

<example snipped>

> > What do you think?  This solution would be easy and flexible.

<objection snipped>

> In other words, I think that we should focus on doing this ONLY if we can
> get the Types Tool to handle upload types as well.

I'll second this - the visibility of little scripts like
this is very poor and actively obscures understanding, I find.  It
would be much better if every effort was made to aggregate related
functionality, and leave quick fixes like this 'as an exercise
for the reader'.

seb