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

[Kapil Thangavelu]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 18:39 +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> yuppie wrote at 2004-11-24 21:43 +0100:
> >Dieter Maurer wrote:
> >> yuppie wrote at 2004-11-24 12:25 +0100:
> >> 
> >>>- in many cases it is not obvious where to store or find an Action
> >> 
> >> There is room for preferences: I would store them locally,
> >> some of my colleagues would prefer a central place.
> >
> >I'm sure you know how to import this:
> >
> >"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
> 
> Then stay with the current action model! Why inventing a new one?
> 
>    Your proposal breaks all existing instances and
>    all tools that build on the current CMFCore action model.
> 
> I have many dozens of instances and have built dozens of tools
> that use the current action model.
> 
> Maybe, you understand that I am quite hostile to your proposal.
> 
> 
> Your proposal may be something for CMF-NG (or CMF2 or CMF for Zope 3)
> but it should not remove essential infrastructure in CMF
> (like "ActionProviderBase") that are essential for todays tools
> build on top of CMF.

fwiw, i'm -1 on this proposal as well. it seems to break compatiblity
and remove features, and the the only concrete use case i can discern
for the change is ui based. if its a ui problem then i'd rather just see
the ui fixed.

-kapil