[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] GenericSetup: import step version

[Rob Miller]

yuppie wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> Can we please deprecate the 'version' argument of registerStep?
> 
> This is the interface description:
> 
> <quote>
>     o 'version' is a string for comparing versions, it is preferred to
>       be a yyyy/mm/dd-ii formatted string (date plus two-digit
>       ordinal).  when comparing two version strings, the version with
>       the lower sort order is considered the older version.
> 
>       - Newer versions of a step supplant older ones.
> 
>       - Attempting to register an older one after a newer one results
>         in a KeyError.
> </quote>
> 
> AFAICT this feature was never used, became inoperable after adding 
> extension profiles and makes absolutely no sense in a global step 
> registry. Originally steps were linked to specific files in the profile, 
> the 'version' described the version of the XML files.
> 
> A profile version can now be set in metadata.xml. AFAICS this supersedes 
> the import step version approach.
> 
> Am I missing something?

no, you're not.  i agree that the idea as it was originally intended no longer 
makes much sense.  but i think the underlying idea (i.e.that there should be 
some way to indicate that changes have happened at a more finely-grained level 
than the entire profile) is still a good one.  i'd love to have some UI that 
indicates what exactly changed within a profile from one version to the next, 
so i can selectively choose which configuration to reapply, minimizing the 
possbility of side effects.

and i want a pony.

+1 to the deprecation.

-r