[Zope-dev] Unauthorized users can writelock helpfiles in /Control_Panel/Products

[Ivo van der Wijk]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:24:05AM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
> Bummer. :-(  It really seems like the help system should just be 
> rewritten.  The fact that it applies the dreaded "write on read" 
> pattern, uses persistent objects and the catalog to provide help has 
> been a thorn in our side for a while.  I think we should just come up 
> with a much simpler help system that doesn't provide any sort of search 
> capability that reads the help files from disk rather than spend much 
> time fixing this problem.
> 

There is no way to fix this? What other problems are there with the
help system?

Would it somehow be possible to make the helpsystem ignore versions?

	Ivo

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