[Zope-dev] 0.4.0 prerelease snapshot (was zpatterns-0.4 ?)

[Kevin Dangoor]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com>
To: "Itamar Shtull-Trauring" <itamar@maxnm.com>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] 0.4.0 prerelease snapshot (was zpatterns-0.4 ?)


> By popular demand, I am releasing a development snapshot of version 0.4.0.
> Please see the main ZPatterns download page.

Woohoo!

> Some things that may not work right...  DataSkins need to have their
> _objectAdding()/_objectDeleting() methods called from
> manage_afterAdd/manage_beforeDelete, and if you subclass ObjectManager or
> CatalogAware or anything else with custom hooks for these methods, you may
> break add/delete events, which are required for some things to work.  This
> might not affect you in the prerelease, because not much is wired to the
> events yet.  But they may break in the final release.

What will be the right way to subclass ObjectManager? CatalogAware won't
really be necessary, because you can use the events stuff to catalog
things... but, I make a lot of things ObjectManagers...

> Last, but not least, the docs are even worse than usual for my releases,
> and some of the newer objects have ugly, missing, or confusing interim
> icons.  So all in all, use at your own risk.

Caveat tester.

Kevin