[Zope-dev] Re: View component registration

[Martijn Faassen]

Malthe Borch wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> There's one major problem that I see. What's the backwards 
>> compatibility story? I'm sure there are a lot of cases in lots of code 
>> where people look up views with a getMultiAdapter, and if we started 
>> registering views differently, wouldn't that code break? How to we get 
>> from A to B?
> 
> It deserves consideration, but I don't think code will be prone to break 
> since we're merely providing more information to lookup a view 
> component, not less.

Hm, you're right, I think, good point. I think it will lead to trouble 
as old code doesn't get updated and excepts to get a view when actually 
it'll get something entirely different.

Regards,

Martijn