[Zope-dev] Compatibility issues: ZPatterns 0.4.2,LoginManager 0.9.0

[Steve Alexander]

Phillip Eby wrote:
>
> * We would like to drop support for Specialists directly containing data
> plug-ins.  This feature was intended to allow for acquiring shared data
> plug-ins from within Racks, so that common attribute or sheet providers
> could be shared among Racks without copying.  In practice, Ty and I have
> never once used this capability, and it could be easily replaced with the
> ability to "include" a SkinScript within another SkinScript, if we take
> advantage of 2.2.x-isms.

I have been putting CatalogTriggers as DataManagers directly in
Specialists.

This seems to me the obvious place to do some triggering action that
applies over all the Specialist's racks, but which has nothing to do
with storage.

I don't yet use SkinScript. However, I imagine there are a number of
uses for Triggers that apply at the level of abstraction of a
Specialist.

Please think about keeping the feature, if it doesn't make things too
complicated.

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Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited
http://www.cat-box.net