[Zope-Coders] more babbling, this time about site roots

[Casey Duncan]

On Friday 19 July 2002 12:24 am, Chris McDonough wrote:
> SiteRoots are evil and dangerous, but they need to stay in Zope for=20
> backwards compatibility reasons.
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> Would it be appropriate to keep the class around but filter them out of=
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> the add list?  It seems kind of silly to have to document them (where=20
> the documentation is "dont use them").

Alternately you could add a note to the add form to the effect of: "Don't=
 use=20
me use VHM".

I know lots of people don't realize that siteroots are evil and use them =
in=20
new sites.

I wonder if you just turn off visibility if that will prevent copy and pa=
ste.=20
Its worth trying. I'm all for removing useless stuff from the add list.

-Casey