[Zope-CMF] CMF 1.4 Roadmap

[Andy McKay]

> Hmmm... okay, here's another question. If I don't have any interest in 
> using portal_text or understanding how it works, how will the proposed 
> chanegs affect any existing sites I have that are based on current CVS CMF?

In theory, if I understand it there will be no effect. I haven't read a 
firm proposal how it works, but there would be a portal_text tool that 
contains content type to portal_text mappings. Portal text would contain 
the transformations such as STX, reSTX, HTML and so on.

There would be then a mapping of content to these transformations, for 
example for the current Document this would be STX, HTML and Plain text. 
But if you wanted to do something funky (for example for ZopeZen I've 
got pics for emoticons) you would add this transformation in here for 
that content type.

When content is written it can be written in one of those formats as per 
the mapping and the transformation would occur. If you don't want to 
look at this you shouldn't have to, the default transformations for the 
default content will be set up and it should work smoothly. Most of this 
current cooking is done in CMFDefault/Document I think, so its just a 
matter of getting that and a few other places to use the portal_text tool.

The details of making chains of transformations or assigning 
transformations to attributes or fields, I dont know yet.
-- 
   Andy McKay