[Zope-dev] Move implementation of getParent to zope.location?

[Martijn Faassen]

Thomas Lotze wrote:
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
>> One question to ask is whether getParent and getParents are used all over
>> the place or just by zope.traversing. If they're only used by
>> zope.traversing we might not want to move them to a more general place,
>> but perhaps we can even see about removing them.
> 
> getParent is used by a number of zope.app.* packages (apidoc, container,
> dependable, onlinehelp, preference, rotterdam, pythonpage, workflow). Its
> only other occurrence is in zope.traversing where it is defined, but not
> used.
> 
> getParents is used by zope.app.* packages as well (rotterdam, tree,
> workflow) and definitions of it occur in zope.location and
> zope.traversing, where it isn't used either, though.
> 
> Seeing this now, I agree to removing the functions provided nobody objects
> against removing parts of the API that might be depended on by client code
> out there. (Both functions are actually exported by zope.traversing.api.)

I think that means we can't remove it. I'd say move it.

Regards,

Martijn