[Zope-CMF] Re: Five's local sitemanager, CMF, etc

[yuppie]

Hi!


Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> yuppie wrote:
> 
>> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>> On 23 Feb 2007, at 00:39, Rocky wrote:
>>>> So... what's next?
>>> Figuring out how to deal with existing sites that need to be modified on 
>>> the fly somehow so they don't break completely.
>> I propose to hardcode PortalObjectBase as IObjectManagerSite. AFAICS 
>> getSiteManager() could create a component registry on the fly if 
>> necessary. So for that part we would neither need the new code in 
>> importVarious nor migration code.
> 
> Hmm, I won't quibble about "migration code". +1.

Ok. I can have a closer look at this part.

>> For registering the tools as utilities you still need to run the 
>> componentregistry import step. I would not use on-the-fly magic for that 
>> part, I think people should do that explicitly.
> 
> If the code which *used* to work using 'getToolByName' now breaks beofre
> that step is done, then we have a problem.  If there is a clear, simple
> step to perform after upgrade, then we should be OK.
> 
> E.g., we might tell folks to do something like:
> 
>  $ cd $INSTANCE_HOME
>  $ ./bin/zopectl run Products/CMFCore/scripts/updateSites foo bar/baz
> 
> To upgrade the 'foo', and 'bar/baz' site objects.  I see no benefit to
> trying to do any migration from within the ZMI here.

I'll leave that part to someone else.


Cheers,

	Yuppie