[Zope-CMF] Re: trouble applying extension profiles

[Rob Miller]

yuppie wrote:
> Hi Rob!
> 
> Rob Miller wrote:
>> - allow extension profiles to specify which of the base profile's 
>> import steps they depend on, so that only these can be run, instead of 
>> the current situation where, AFAICT, you have to either run them all 
>> or manually examine the profile and select the steps to run
>>
>> - draw a more clear distinction between the base profile and the 
>> extension profiles.  instead of having the extension profiles 
>> piggy-backing on the base profile, extension profiles would explicitly 
>> define all of their own import steps, so that they can be applied 
>> cleanly on top of existing sites w/o becoming quite so muddled w/ the 
>> default configuration.  this would also make it easier to implement an 
>> uninstall process that would remove the extension profile from the site.
> 
> These solutions will create new problems regarding the procedure for 
> exports and re-imports.

can you elaborate on this so i can understand the issues?  it seems 
that, for the first of these two options at least, it wouldn't be hard 
to make it work w/o actually changing any current behaviour.

-r