[Zope-dev] Versions: should they die?

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Oliver Bleutgen wrote
> As you and Guido are talking about the ZMI (which means, AFAIK, the 
> managament interface), let me just say that as far as I understand it, 
> deprecating/marking-as-evil and even removing OFSP/Version.py is not 
> what I would like to see happen (not only).
> 
> The problem lies in ZODB.ZApplication.ZApplicationWrapper
> 
>   def __bobo_traverse__(self, REQUEST=None, name=None):
>          db, aname, version_support = self._stuff
>          if version_support is not None and REQUEST is not None:
>              version=REQUEST.get(version_support,'')
>          else: version=''
>          conn=db.open(version)
>    ...
> 
> As I understand it, even if the Version product is removed, just putting 
> at variable named 'Zope-Version' into the REQUEST will cause reads and 
> writes to happen in a version.
> Am I missing something here?

I think that will only work if there's a Version with the specified name.

Anthony

-- 
Anthony Baxter     <anthony@interlink.com.au>   
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.