[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] enhancing Actions: a rough proposal

[Florent Guillaume]

In article <41A48F25.2060508 at zope.com> you write:
> Lennart Regebro wrote:
> > Dieter Maurer wrote:
> > 
> >> Lennart Regebro wrote at 2004-11-23 21:23 +0100:
> >>
> >>> Well, unless we make workflows inherit from other workflows, I think 
> >>> we need  to continue to be redundant...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Which would be a really good thing (allowing to derive new workflows
> >> from existing one).
> > 
> > 
> > True, but it's a really big change, and I have a hard time seeing how it 
> > can be done with DCWorkflow.
> 
> It wouldn't be too hard;  basically, the approach would be make the 
> current "subcontainers" (the Scripts, Transitions, etc. objects) behave 
> like "layered" containers (their '_getOb', 'objectIds', etc. would look 
> "up" to the parent, too).

Yep, I've toyed with this idea too...

> The only really *hard* part about it would be the lack of unittests for 
> DCWorkflow.

Indeed.

Florent

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