[Zope-dev] Re: Re: OFS.Application deprecations for Zope 2.10

[Chris Withers]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> An example of cruft removal that is worthwhile:  the help system code 
> has stupid side effects (it writes to an invisible catalog in the ZODB 
> *at startup!*), and people have an alternate way of viewing the help via 
> the filesystem.  Apparently nobody actually looks at the help system 
> anyway, because if they did, they'd be complaining that it has content 
> that's something like three major revisions behind.  So that's a huge 
> pile of cruft that could be ripped out, which would be a pure win.

I dunno, I still find it handy for documentation for sequence.sort and 
DateTime, which I can never remember...

> OTOH, I'd like nothing more than to get a do-over on sessions, but I 
> won't get it.  They have a nasty API.  I'd rip that API out in a 
> heartbeat if I didn't know it would screw lots of people.  So I leave it 
> because it's the right thing to do, clean or not.

Yeah, with you on this one...

cheers,

Chris

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