[Zope-CMF] Re: Checking which version of the CMF is running

[Charlie Clark]

Am 13.10.2006 um 17:29 schrieb Tres Seaver:

>
> That should work.  However, I think I would rather do "capability
> checks" than "version checks", e.g.::
>
>   try:
>       from Products.CMFCore.permissions import AddPortalContent
>   except ImportError:  # BBB, CMF < 1.5
>       from Products.CMFCore.CMFCorePermissions import AddPortalContent

I agree with this in general but still think there should be a  
general way of checking the version of a Product just like Zope has  
getZopeVersion() because that might help work out where to import  
from. I was just surprised by the way it was done in this particular  
module which if I read Formulator.__init__.py shouldn't even get  
imported in CMFCore is around and then I looked at the Plone  
installer which does it's own file system search, ie. I realise this  
isn't a CMF issue but thought which version of the CMF is running  
might be important to a lot of things out there.

Should I punt this to the zope-dev lot? Simply factoring out the  
version checking code from App.Product.initialize_product() should do  
the trick.

Charlie
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