[Zope-CMF] Re: GenericSetup extension profile import step mis-feature

[Tres Seaver]

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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Martin Aspeli wrote:
>>
>>
>> yuppie-3 wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>
>>> The proposed solution doesn't work:
>>>
>>> The ImportStepRegistry is not only used for imports - it is also used 
>>> for creating new 'import_steps.xml' files for exports.
>>>
>>> Exported profiles are always base profiles, they have to specify *all* 
>>> import handlers used for creating the site.
>>>
>> Right, that's fine. I think the current export functionality is right.
> 
> I think it's wrong :) The export functionality suffers from the same
> problen as the import functionality: the export steps defined in
> extension profiles are only used if they have been selected once.
> In other words: it is just as unpredictable.

What is unpredictable?  If you import an extension profile, its steps
(both export and import) get grafted into the effective baseline profile.

> I like Yvo's idea of make import and export registration global instead
> of per-profile.

They are "global" to the site, if I understand you.  I would *not* want
them "global" across the whole instance, because they aren't relevant
for all users of GenericSetup.


Tres.
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