[Zope-dev] Question: additional context for IAnnotations adapter?

[Dieter Maurer]

Jacob Holm wrote at 2009-3-6 01:55 +0100:
> ...
>I added it while working for ZC two years ago. It was needed to support 
>a use case where the context used for looking up the annotation was not 
>necessarily the current site. I don't know if the use case is still 
>relevant to ZC, but the pattern is still being used in e.g. 
>zc.notification and zope.app.preference (where it was added by me at the 
>time).

I expect that use cases like this (looking up objects in a foreign site
context) will be important for my current employer (if it continuous to
use Zope in the future).



-- 
Dieter