[Zope-CMF] Re: Modifications using GS profiles

[Rob Miller]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> yuppie wrote:
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>> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>> On 5 Apr 2007, at 16:07, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>>>> Previously Tres Seaver wrote:
>>>>> There may be a better solution in place already on the branch we worked
>>>>> on at the BBQ Sprint:
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>> svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/GenericSetup/branches/tseaver-bbq_sprint 
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That branch includes Rob Miller's work to land the "upgrade steps"
>>>>> feature from the CPS extensions the GenericSetup, along with an
>>>>> improvied "base vs. extension" UI.
>> But that code doesn't improve the non-purging mode. The changes Wichert 
>> proposed make sense with or without the 'upgrade steps' feature.
> 
> If we had the upgrade machinery in place, we could scrap non-purging
> mode altogether -- its purpose is to allow for "controlled" application
> of changes to existing configuration without full replacement.
> Wichert's rationale was specifically:
> 
>> The particular reason I'm interested in this is that for Plone we are
>> playing with using GenricSetup profiles as part of the migration code.
>> This means we can write a lot less python code but just write changes
>> as profile snippets.
> 
>>>> Since CMF 2.1 is in beta I don't expect it to land in 2.1 anymore, or is
>>>> that a wrong assumption?
>>> Well, first of all it needs to move from the GenericSetup branch to the 
>>> GenericSetup trunk I'd think. If there is a new beta and a consensus 
>>> that it's not a problem (meaning more core CMF developers comment on it) 
>>> we can put it into CMF 2.1.
>> CMF 2.1 beta has some serious site manager issues. Please let's focus on 
>> resolving these issues first.
> 
> I'm really just lobbying to have the GS work tested and merged.  Fixing
> ths LSM stuff is in the hands of a different set of folks, I think.
> Rob, how did stuff go at Sorrento?

i made some progress on this, but i didn't finish the work... i ended up doing 
quite a bit of multitasking.  i'm hoping to finish it up and get it all 
committed over the course of this week.

-r