[Zope-CMF] Re: CMF 1.6

[Raphael Ritz]

Alec Mitchell wrote:
[..]
> The big problem with this move is there's no way to give product developers 
> warning.  They can't start using super now, because none of the base classes 
> use it, but once super is in place in the base classes developers will need 
> to start using it immediately or risk strange breakages.  Maintaining 
> product compatibility between versions of CMF/Plone will become nearly 
> impossible. 

Given that we have currently 216 add-on products for Plone listed on
plone.org/products alone, where the majority I guess is based on
Archetypes, this really should be considered a show-stopper.

> Doesn't look like there are any alternatives for getting 
> add/delete/copy events working under zope2 though.

I'm afraid you are right :-(

/me holding back my desire to push for events nevertheless

Raphael

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