[Zope-CMF] tools, utilities, and getToolByName

[Kapil Thangavelu]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:50:42 -0400, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net>  
wrote:

> The tools/utilities/getToolByName debate seems to have petered out
> without reaching a real consensus. Since I'm trying to get a next Plone
> 3 beta out this is becoming somewhat problematic for me, so I'm trying
> to get an understanding of various peoples understanding.
>
> There appears to be a consensus to at least undeprecate getToolByName,
> for several reasons: it is used by almost every product out there, and
> deprecation it for what are only aesthetic reasons (everyone should
> move the Zope3 APIs).
>
> There appears to be a consensus amongst Plone developers to keep the
> Zope 3 (get|query)Utility functions clear of any acquisition wrapping
> magic. This effectively means reverting the tools-as-utilities work,
> since the tools need an acquisition context as they are not proper
> utilities. This is driven by two factors: a desire to stay consistent
> with the Zope 3 API and the increasing amount of magic code needed
> to do the acquisition wrapping when dealing with multiple site managers,
> some of which may not have any knowledge of CMF. Other people (Jens and
> Yuppie for example) disagree strongly and want to supplement or improve
> the site manager logic to handle acquisition wrapping.
>
> Putting my Plone release manager hat on I need to know what we can
> use for the next beta, which want to release in the next 10 days.
> I fear that we will not resolve this fully before then; however if
> there is indeed a consensus to undeprecate getToolByName I think
> we should switch back to using that in Plone. Otherwise our release
> is going to be an ever-shifting target.

if by consensus you mean vote..

+1 on undepreciating gettoolbyname

-kapil