[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] unresolved site manager related issues

[Alec Mitchell]

On 4/15/07, Martin Aspeli <optilude at gmx.net> wrote:
> Dieter Maurer wrote:
> > Alec Mitchell wrote at 2007-4-12 06:59 -0700:
> >> ...
> >> ... deprecation of "getToolByName" ...
> >> which is that there's no practical reason other than
> >> aesthetics to deprecate getToolByName at this point.
> >
> > A very good point: let's deprecate deprecations done just for
> > aethetical reasons :-)
>
> Aesthetics were not the original reason for moving down this route, so
> it's a little unfair to cast it in that light. The main drivers, as I
> recall, were to encourage API usage that would allow us to move tools
> out of content space eventually, and to make code depending on CMF tools
> more consistent with "newer" code which may depend on new utilities (at
> least in the Plone world, there is a general consensus that we'd rather
> not have any more content-space tools from now on).

What is it about getToolByName that implies that tools are in content
space?  Consistency with "newer" code is an aesthetic concern as far
as I understand it.

Alec

Alec