[Zope-CMF] CMF 1.4 Roadmap

[Chris Withers]

Andy McKay wrote:
>> 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.

This sounds unsure enough that I'm inclined to put for 1.5...

> 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. 

Yeah, but what about existing Type Information Objects and their associated 
skins? Would the need alteration to keep working?

> 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.

What will set them up and when? How about people upgrading from 1.3 to this?

cheers,

Chris