[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] CatalogAware

[Chris McDonough]

Excellent, thanks so much Toby.  Maybe some feedback will come in...

- C


Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >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
> 
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