[Zope-CMF] Re: tools, utilties

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Fri May 25 17:14:49 EDT 2007


Previously Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Since nobody objected I removed the deprecation warning from
> > getToolByName. This means that products can keep relying on the
> > established getToolByName API, even if the underlying technology
> > changes.
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> Fine, thanks.
> 
> > The release schedule for Plone 3 is already off by a few months now, and
> > we can no longer afford to wait for the perfect solution. So what we
> > doing now is switching all code back to using getToolByName, but keep
> > the interfaces and utility registration for all our tools. This means
> > getUtility & friends will still work in Plone 3 as long as there are
> > no non-acquisition-aware local site managers in your path.
> > 
> > Plone will need a CMF 2.1 release for its final release as well, so I am
> > very interesting in seeing this settled properly. Unfortunately the
> > discussion seems to be at a bit of a stalemate and I'm not sure how that
> > can be resolved.
> 
> I think we will be able to work this out in the next few weeks, and get
> a 2.1 release out the door.

I've been on vacation for the last few weeks so I'm a bit out of touch.
Has there been any progress on this front?

Wichert.

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