[Zope-CMF] Toggle skins - Recipe Updated

[Carl Rendell]

On Friday, August 23, 2002, at 09:55  AM, Tres Seaver wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 12:25, Carl Rendell wrote:
>> Just an fyi.
>>
>> Alan has check changes to CMFCore.Skinnable (version 1.7) into CVS,
>> and the recipe on ZopeLabs has been changed to reflect the new
>> method - changeskin() -
>>
>> http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1028172355
>>
>> BTW... Is there going to be a CMF 1.3.1 release? It's been asked
>> before, and it would seem that quite a few changes have been going
>> into CVS post release. The challenge might be picking a point at
>> which to make the release.
>
> I would probably avoid doing a 1.3.1 release at the moment;  the one
> bugfix which might warrant a release is not for a "glaring" problem).
>
> *Most* of the changes since the release are on the head;  *some* of the
> changes on the CMF-1_3-branch look inappropriate (e.g., there is a 
> bunch
> of new features added to CMFEvent), while others (the 
> race-condition fix
> for FSObject/FSDTMLMethod) are proper.
>
> The 'changeSkin' change is iffy for the 1.3 branch:  it is a "new
> feature", really.  The general rule is that new features go only on the
> head, while bugfixes are done first on the current release branch and
> then forward-ported to the head.
>

In one way you are right, the changeSkin is new functionality. 
However, if the new functionality is the fix for the issue in 
collector -

http://collector.zope.org/CMF/27

It might then be considered a bug fix right? If not then the bug is 
still out standing, and fixing it will mean that there are two 
methods for performing the same task.

~C

Carl E. Rendell
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