[Zope-dev] RFC: Acquisition and __parent__ pointers

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

This proposal aims at bringing Zope 2 a bit closer to Zope 3 by making 
the widely used Acquisition API aware of Zope 3's __parent__ pointers. 
This will alleviate the need of using Acquisition base classes in Zope 2 
for every security-sensitive object, be it persistent or just a 
dynamically looked up component such as a view. The goal is to enable 
the use of Zope 3 components in Zope 2 straight away without creating 
subclasses that mix in Acquisition for security's sake.

See http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/AcquisitionAndParentPointers for the full 
proposal. Comments are appreciated. I expect little resistance to this 
as it pretty much doesn't change any existing semantics and just makes 
all of our lives much simpler. Also, if it helps, this has been blessed 
by Jim in discussion at the EuroPython 2006 sprint.


As for the implementation, I gave it my best shot in the 
philikon-aq-and-__parent__ branch. My experience with C is limited, 
especially when it comes to debugging. Help is therefore highly 
appreciated. There's a reward waiting for whoever fixes the problem and 
helps getting the branch merged to the trunk (see the proposal text).

:)

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