[Zope-CMF] Re: CMFSetup profile changing

[Florent Guillaume]

By the way will you (or others) be at EuroPython ? It would be nice to
discuss plans for CMFSetup face to face.

Florent


yuppie  <y.2005- at wcm-solutions.de> wrote:
> Florent Guillaume wrote:
> > In the Properties tab of CMFSetup, you can choose an active site  
> > configuration, among the snapshots and the registered profiles.
> > This sets the current context_id for the tool, and loads the import  
> > steps, export steps and toolset for that configuration.
> > 
> > When you switch to a new base configuration, the import/export steps  
> > are loaded on top of the current ones without purging. So for  instance 
> > if you:
> > - select CMFDefault Site. The import steps now comprise 8 steps.
> > - select CMFCalendar. The import steps now have an additional  "Various 
> > Calendar Settings" step.
> > - select CMFDefault Site again (or a third-party base (non-extension)  
> > profile). The Calendar step is retained.
> > 
> > Is this intended ? If yes, why ? My reasoning would be that when you  
> > import a base profile, you want just that, not what was previously  there.
> > 
> > I'll fix that if we agree it's a bug.
> 
> Well. This is still a mess. Loading import/export steps from the profile 
> did make more sense before I added extension profile support. Now I 
> would prefer to register *all* handlers on Zope startup.
> 
> The handlers are supposed to do nothing if there are no related 
> XML-files in the selected profile. But this rule doesn't work with the 
> provisional handlers in CMFDefault and CMFCalendar because they don't 
> depend on an XML-file.
> 
> The problem with the fix you proposed is that we currently need a 
> complete set of import/export handlers for snapshots/exports. Switching 
> back to the base profile would reset all handlers and make snapshots 
> incomplete.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Yuppie
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Zope-CMF maillist  -  Zope-CMF at lists.zope.org
> http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf
> 
> See http://collector.zope.org/CMF for bug reports and feature requests
> 


-- 
Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo (Paris, France)   CTO, Director of R&D
+33 1 40 33 71 59   http://nuxeo.com   fg at nuxeo.com