[Zope-dev] Re: names starting with '@' are not reserved

[yuppie]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> yuppie wrote:
>> In Zope 3 the NameChooser makes sure you can't use content IDs starting
>> with '+' or '@'.
>>
>> Zope 2 doesn't allow '+' in content IDs (actually the error message says
>> the ID contains characters illegal in URLs), but you can use content IDs
>> like '@@edit.html'. If the lookup order is changed as proposed
>> (http://codespeak.net/pipermail/z3-five/2006q1/001186.html) this allows
>> to override views with content objects.
>>
>> I guess this is a bug
> 
> I wouldn't say that. It's just that something Five added (Zope 3 view
> lookup) doesn't work in all cases of legal Zope 2 object names. That's
> Five's problem, not Zope 2's (strictly speaking).

I don't understand that differentiation. Five is part of Zope 2, so each 
Five issue is also a Zope 2 issue.

>> and should be fixed in Zope 2.8, 2.9 and trunk.
> 
> We'd be changing Zope 2's behaviour (not fixing a Five bug), I would
> therefore vote for making this change on the Zope 2 trunk only.

Fixing a bug sometimes requires to change the behavior.


Cheers, Yuppie