[Zope-CMF] Re: GS and the Toolset registry

Alec Mitchell apm13 at columbia.edu
Wed Nov 15 13:11:32 EST 2006


Tres,

What are your feeling about this?  Is there a reason not to jettison
the toolset registry, other than backwards compatibility?

Thanks,
Alec

On 11/14/06, yuppie <y.2006_ at wcm-solutions.de> wrote:
> Hi Alec!
>
>
> Alec Mitchell wrote:
> > So I've recently run into a bit of a problem involving the extension
> > profiles and the toolset registry.  The issue is that if I install an
> > extension profile that overrides one of the tools from the base
> > profile, then switch back to the base profile (but not run any steps),
> > then switch to another extension profile that provides a toolset step
> > (which has no mention of the tool overridden in the first extension
> > profile), the tool from the base profile will replace the tool from
> > the first extension profile, even though the base profile was never
> > re-installed and the second extension profile makes no mention of this
> > tool.
>
> I personally just ignored the toolset registry because I never needed it
> and it never did get in my way.
>
> The issue you describe is annoying. Instead of working on a fix I'd
> prefer to rip the toolset registry out. But maybe Tres knows why the
> toolset registry exists and why it is still useful.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>         Yuppie
>
>


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