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

[Dieter Maurer]

Andreas Jung wrote at 2008-2-29 06:43 +0100:
> ...
>> When the export handler is able to extract all relevant configuration
>> parameters for an index, why should the import handler
>> not be able to check the configuration parameters in a profile
>> against an existing index and determine that it needs to do nothing?
>
>Huh? Because we're looking for a clean solution and not for a hack!

Why is it a hack when the import handler uses as much detail about
an object as the export handler does?

As I understood Wichert, we can currently export indexes reliably but
we cannot import it without removal and recreation of the index.
I cannot understand this.



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Dieter