[Zope-dev] Proposal: Align Zope 2 and Zope 3 permissions

[Tres Seaver]

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Martin Aspeli wrote:

> I've not done this yet:
> 
>>   3) Change the Permission class in AccessControl so that it tries to 
>> look up an IPermission utility and use the title of that utility as the 
>> permission name, falling back on the current behaviour of using the 
>> passed permission name directly.
> 
> I'd like to solicit a bit more input before attempting this, as I got at 
> least one -1.
> 
> I think this is the bigger win, though, and I'd still like to do it 
> unless performance becomes prohibitive or it turns out to be too 
> invasive a change.

- -1:  I think both of those will be true.  I also don't see much win.

The major goal should be to unify the API for add-ons, rather than the
implementation:  your #1 and #2 alaready did that, I think.


Tres.
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