[Zope-CMF] [headsup] removing old setup machinery on CMF trunk

[David Pratt]

Hi there.  I have been monitoring the list to observe changes in setup 
specifically.  I have been waiting for things to stabilize since there 
seemed to be many sorts of changes occuring in arriving at what it 
would look like including splitting CMFSetup etc.

When will these changes in machinery come out on a new CMF release.  As 
far as third party products, I have been generating Install type files 
still will my products.  Will these still be able to be used or will 
this be completely replaced by the new machinery.  What happens to 
CMFQuickinstaller as a result?  Is that completely dead after these 
changes occur?  I am wondering what to do with any non standard code 
executed on install, like add things like python scripts or folders, 
etc. Where will this go without Install? I am assuming the xml will 
take care of many standard things, but what about anything out of the 
ordinary like what I mentioned?

Sorry if this sounds like worry.  It is not. Rather I am wanting to 
make sure that I stay current so my own products won't break and I am 
keeping in tune with recent developments. Also these changes are 
important to me since I am trying to develop a portal by subclassing 
CMFSite so there seems to be many things happening that could affect 
what I am doing.

Many thanks
David


On Thursday, October 20, 2005, at 12:53 PM, yuppie wrote:

> Hi all!
>
>
> If there are no objections, I'll merge tomorrow the 
> yuppie-setup_cleanup branch into the trunk. This will break the setup 
> code of all third-party products that haven't yet switched to 
> GenericSetup/CMFSetup.
>
>
> 1.) factory_type_information data is replaced by XML files in the 
> types directory of profiles.
>
> TypesTool.listDefaultTypeInformation was removed, the 'fti' argument 
> of utils.ContentInit and the 'typeinfo_name' argument of 
> TypesTool.manage_addTypeInformation are ignored.
>
> 2.) manage_addCMFSite is replaced by addConfiguredSite.
>
> 3.) PortalGenerator is replaced by setup handlers and a base profile.
>
> 4.) enumerateIndexes, enumerateLexicons, enumerateColumns and 
> _initIndexes of CatalogTool are replaced by a catalog.xml file in 
> profiles.
>
> 5.) Install.py scripts are replaced by extension profiles.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> 	Yuppie
>
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