[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] CatalogAware

[Toby Dickenson]

Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com> wrote:

>I actually think this about sums it up.  If you have time to look at it
>Toby, it would be much appreciated.  I don't think it's a very
>complicated set of fixes, its just not on the radar at the moment, and
>might require some thought about backwards-compatibility.

Not a patch, but Ive fixed all three known CatalogAware problems in a
separate product; a new base class that derives from CatalogAware:

http://www.zope.org/Members/htrd/BetterCatalogAware/

The techniques used in this product have been thoroughly stressed in
several other production systems, but this is the first time they have
been collected together in one place so bugs are possible.


>That makes CatalogAware much saner and will produce less bloat.=20
>Actually, maybe I should just go make that change in the trunk and the
>2.4 branch, although I'm a little afraid of what (if anything) it will
>break for everybody.  To be honest, I really don't have much time to
>spend thinking about this, and my fears are probably just FUD.

Im not sure how many people are using CatalogAware; I think many
serious users have been scared off by the problem reports in the list
archives.

IMO fixing this may be worth a little breakage.

Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com