[Zope-dev] Transparent folders?

[Tom Deprez]

At 04:07 28/04/2000 +0200, Christian Scholz wrote:
>Hi!
>
>On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:31:44PM -0700, Michel Pelletier wrote:
>> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi there,
>> > 
>> Ya lost me right there, where is there a copy involved?  Why can't you
>> put your Foo layout components in a FooLayout folder in the root folder
>> and say:
>> 
>> <dtml-with FooLayout></dtml-with>
>> 
>> When you want to use them?  The only downside of this from your approach
>> is that it's not 'transparent'.
>
>I think "transparent" is better, as you can also do the sorting
>afterwards, e.g. when you think that it's now too full..
>You wouldn't have to change every occurence of an object in the
>dtml code somewhere then.
>
>> But otherwise what you are proposing does make sense, I'm getting the
>> impression of 'overlaying' various folder namespaces while keeping their
>> organziational structure.  Ok, some questions.
>> 
>> What happens when a transparent folder 'A' contains a tranparent folder
>> 'B'?  
>
>Maybe this simply shouldn't be allowed.. ;-) At least then all the 
>mentioned problems wouldn't occur..

Yes, this shouldn't be allowed, i.e. a transparentfolder shouldn't be able
to contain a folder or a transparantfolder (...). A transparentfolder is
just something to ease the organisation of a certain node. Nothing more. 

Tom