[Zope-Coders] Re: 342/ 3 Resubmit "Zope shouldn't insert <base ...> tag to File objects with text/html content type."

[Chris McDonough]

Yes, this was not one of those cases.  I was not paying as much
attention as I should have.  Base tag == FUD. ;-)

- C

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:41, Casey Duncan wrote:
> Just to chime in (again), I don't think any feathers were ruffled here. Some 
> eggs are bound to get broken on bug day with that many changes coming from so 
> many different people. I just figured backing out the change was easy enough 
> to do as a quick fix. I certainly appreciate your prompt re-resolution of the 
> problem. 
> 
> I think Chris was just pointing out that the BASE tag behavior is in a 
> precarious balance in Zope. Its easy to cause widespread breakage by "fixing" 
> base tag behavior that may be arguably wrong, but still depended on by 
> existing sites. In retrospect I don't think this was one of those cases.
> 
> -Casey
> 
> On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:05 am, Andy McKay wrote:
> > > I think that we have a moratorium on changing any code that deals with
> > > BASE tag behavior.  It's very fragile and needn't be messed with
> > > unless something is desperately broken.
> > 
> > I think we could also just hold off until we find out the reason for the
> > patch failing as well (a missing cvs tag on a checkin caused by a cvs bug).
> > If one typo in one patch on a bug day causes that many alarms to go off
> > before anyone contacts the submitter, then we have something wrong with the
> > way we are doing a bug day.
> > --
> >   Andy McKay
> > 
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