[Zope-CMF] Portal Folder's timestamps

[Tres Seaver]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 13:11, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:36:06PM +0200, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> > I think the usual answer to this is "PortalFolder is not designed to be
> > content". It's simply designed to hold subobjects, period. If you want
> > more, use a mix of SkinnedFolder and PortalContent.
> 
> you know, i don't think i've ever understood the distinction.
> What's an intended use case for SkinnedFolder?

The major difference is that SkinnedFolders delegate the lookup of their
default view to their type object, while PortalFolders do the
"traditional" lookup (for 'index_html').  I can easily envision building
an entire, large site without ever using PortalFolder at all.

Tres.
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