[Zope-CMF] Re: backporting GenericSetup to CMF-1.5

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 15 Nov 2005, at 02:56, Rob Miller wrote:
> to be fair, AT's (un)indexing code is a mess... i tried to change  
> the BaseFolderMixin manage_(after|before)* methods so they  
> explicitly call the PortalFolder implementations and was still  
> ending up w/ subobject orphans left in the catalog after container  
> deletions.  ideally, this would provide us an opportunity to push  
> the CatalogMultiplex functionality down into the CMF core and clean  
> up the indexing mess on the Plone side a bit.  and in a perfect  
> world, we'd defer the actual (un)indexing until the end of the  
> transaction.  those changes might be too much to try to get into  
> CMF 1.6, however...

A big -1 on just pushing the Plone mess into CMF.

As Raphael suggests, it would be much better to go directly to event- 
based cataloging. However, that sounds like too big of a chunk for  
the given timeframe...

jens