[Zope-CMF] Re: CMF roadmap update

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 25 Apr 2006, at 15:08, Chris Withers wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>> I sent an email about this a couple days ago. Basically, I'm down  
>>> to one failing unit test in CMFUid and have discovered that  
>>> CMFUid is basically broken in 2.0/trunk. I also sent an email on  
>>> this issue to the list, hoping that the developers who wrote  
>>> CMFUid and lobbied hard to get it included would take notice and  
>>> do something about it (or at least acknowledge it), but all I see  
>>> is silence so far.
>> At least I have found what the problem with CMFUid is, and it is  
>> mostly a misunderstanding how it is supposed to work. Mea culpa.  
>> I'm still left with the one failing unit test on the events  
>> branch, though.
>
> Having such an unknown and unmaintained piece of code in the core  
> of the cmf scares me.
>
> How would people feel about deprecating it for 2.1 and removing it  
> in 2.3 if no-one steps up who wants it?

Well, I have my own opinion about that, but the course of action  
depends mostly on those people who are using it. No one seems to,  
judged by the complete silence.

As I have found, it is only used in one specific situations: If you  
create a Favorite pointing to a piece of content, then that piece  
gets tagged with a UID, and the UID identifies the content piece for  
the Favorite. So you can copy/paste/whatever the content and the  
Favorite still knows how to find it.

jens

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