[Zope-CMF] Re: CMFSetup profile changing
Florent Guillaume
fg at nuxeo.com
Fri Jun 17 07:11:38 EDT 2005
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
>
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