[Zope-dev] Re: Deprecating Zope 2 interfaces?

[Chris Withers]

yuppie wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> I don't think it will make much sense to keep Zope 2 interfaces around
>> for more than one year from now. In other words, I'm suggesting to
>> deprecate them for Zope 2.10.
> 
> +10

Me too ;-)

> 1.) WriteLock: Objects are only lockable if their class has 
> WriteLockInterface in its __implements__ list.
> 
> 2.) PluggableIndex: Indexes for ZCatalog have to be registered in 
> Products.meta_types with PluggableIndexInterface.
> 
> 3.) IFAwareObjectManager and the 'interfaces' argument of 
> ObjectManager.all_meta_types: The mechanism used for pluggable indexes 
> has a generic implementation in ObjectManager and can be used by any 
> subclass of IFAwareObjectManager.

I think these can safely swapped... ie: no non-zope-core code actually 
does anything with these interfaces...

cheers,

Chris

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