[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] GenericSetup: using global steps

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously yuppie wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> >Previously yuppie wrote:
> >>GenericSetup trunk has global step registries. I propose to use the new 
> >>ZCML directive for registering all GenericSetup and CMF import and 
> >>export steps globally. And to remove the import_steps.xml and 
> >>export_steps.xml files from the profiles shipped with CMF.
> >>
> >>This also requires to add a flag file for the 'various' step.
> >>
> >>I already started implementing this. If there are no objections, I'll 
> >>soon check in my changes.
> >
> >+1
> >
> >there is one thing missing at the moment: unregistering the old
> >profile-registered steps. I'm not sure what the right way to do that is.
> 
> listExportSteps() and getSortedImportSteps() now have unit tests and no 
> longer return duplicates. AFAICS we now have a clean override behavior 
> and nothing breaks if the same step is registered locally *and* globally.

Great, thanks for doing that.

> But I agree there should be a way to remove obsolete and broken local 
> steps. A method that removes local duplicates of global steps and a 
> method that removes broken steps would be useful. Not sure if they 
> should be run automatically or if there should be a cleanup button in 
> the UI.

I would prefer manually: otherwise we risk breaking things if someone
tries a newer version of a product and then downgrades and suddenly
looses the step registrations. I will see if I can make a ZMI page for
that over the next week.

Wichert.

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