[Zope-CMF] [dev] Should portal_setup be registered as utility?

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> yuppie wrote:
> > CMFDefault registers portal_setup as utility. Some code in CMF depends 
> > on that.
> > 
> > Plone doesn't doesn't register portal_setup as utility:
> > http://dev.plone.org/plone/changeset/18763
> > 
> > That causes some trouble in Plone:
> > http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/7714
> > 
> > The same issue was reported as CMF bug:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope-cmf/+bug/263525
> > 
> > Due to a misunderstanding the CMF bug was marked as 'Won't Fix'.
> > 
> > Questions: Is there a good reason why Plone doesn't register 
> > portal_setup as utility? Does the same reason apply to CMFDefault? Do we 
> > have to support registered and not registered portal_setup tools?
> 
> The reason why we don't register the setup tool as an utility anymore,
> is that too many import/export steps in-the-wild required the REQUEST to
> be available.

Specifically the problem is that import/export steps use tools which for
whatever reason assume self.REQUEST is available.

WIchert.

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