[Zope-CMF] Re: cmfuid and zope.app.intids

[Martin Aspeli]

Miles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if the CMFUid package could be replaced by a thin 
> wrapper around zope.app.intids.  As (I think) one of the few users of 
> CMFUid, I'd like to replace it within something a little more robust and 
> this seemed like a possible way to do it.
> 
> Generally, I've found having the concept of uids available a very useful 
> thing.  So, my questions are:
> 
>   - Has anyone used zope.app.intids at all, or done anything similar?

Yes. There's a five.intid package for Zope 2 integration. This is used 
by plone.relations and plone.app.relations. The latter are actually very 
nice reference engine implementations (and not Plone specific as far as 
I'm aware).

>   - Does this sound achievable at all?

Yes.

>   - Is this a generally useful thing to do?

Yes, but beware of migration.

Martin

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