[Zope-dev] unregistering products

[Dieter Maurer]

alan milligan wrote at 2003-9-23 06:35 +0000:
 > However, the original product is still available through Products.meta_types 
 > and the factory construction mechanism.  This is a pain as then users must 
 > be careful as to what product's they create.
 > 
 > It is inconvenient to comment out the registerClass calls in the __init__.py 
 > to achieve this result.  Is there any other technique to deregister products 
 > yet still have them available in the PYTHONPATH to satisfy other 
 > dependencies?

This could have some nasty side effects, e.g. "icon" may not get defined.

Probably, a better solution would be to add "visible= 0" to
the "registerClass" call.


Dieter