[Zope-CMF] Re: CMFSetup

[computing project]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback - I hadn't looked where you suggested, and I'd been 
thinking about starting with the catalog, so I managed to avoid two 
potential pitfalls before starting (very pleasing!).

I've written handlers for the cookie crumbler and for the mailhost - not 
exactly rocket science but actually very informative as they are pretty 
simple (well, the simplest!) tools.  I started off looking at all the code, 
and found that I didn't need to look at most of it to get things working.  I 
also feel like I've also come up with a bit of a methodology that's useful 
to follow when trying to write handlers, so I will write up a brief HowTo at 
some point - grateful for some feedback on this.  No unit tests yet 
though...

Some vague questions though:

- in what way is the setup tool code 'likely to change'.  i'm interested to 
find out more about what's planned, and also how to make the setup scripts 
less brittle?

- i found it tricky that i couldn't look at some sort of schema for the 
inout/output of an import/export step: there is some information which is 
only captured in zpt templates.  is this something useful to think about 
more?  i also wondered if attaching types into the schema would make the 
import configuration simpler (e.g. i could specify in the schema that a 
property should be interpreted as an integer, and not in the import 
configurator: which would make it easier to read).

- in cmf core + default, the mailhost is just referenced by self.MailHost.  
Should this be a getToolByName?  and/or should the MailHost be a unique 
object so the id doesn't change?  and should we always assume it's a child 
of the portal object?  i wasn't sure what the 'correct' way to reference it 
was, to ensure it was available to import.

I'm sure I had another question, but I can't remember now...!

ta

pete

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