[Zope-CMF] Re: What is the status of GS wiping catalog indexes on catalog.xml import?

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:00 , Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >--On 29. Februar 2008 08:39:05 +0000 Martin Aspeli  
> ><optilude at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Of course, we should also provide a way to get an interface or  
> >>something
> >>else describing the configuration for introspection purposes.  
> >>Waiting one
> >>or two Zope versions for that to get a non-purging GS import  
> >>handler when
> >>there's a works-90%-of-the-time solution (falling back on current
> >>behaviour) would be a shame though.
> >>
> >
> >You don't have to wait for for new Zope versions. Defining the  
> >interface
> >officially in Zope 2.10, 2.11 and trunk will raise no problems. I  
> >have no problems with putting this into the official release  
> >branches - or?
> 
> My personal opinion: I'd rather see the interface-based solution in a  
> few weeks or a couple months (the next Zope release) than the, umh,  
> less-than-professional solution that will stick around forever. As  
> such solutions have a tendency to do. "It works now" absolves everyone  
> from the task to come back later and improve the solution, so no one  
> does.

Amen to that.

Wichert.


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