[Zope-CMF] Re: [dev] GenericSetup: import step version
Rob Miller
ra at burningman.com
Mon Nov 5 21:59:09 EST 2007
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
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