[Zope] RE: What method do I use to check access?

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Page [mailto:rob.page@digicool.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 12:52
> To: Jay, Dylan
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] RE: What method do I use to check access?
> 
> What if you could define assign a role to a role?  In your 
> example above
> you have the developer role and the supervisor role.  You 
> might then be
> able to assign the developer role to the supervisor role.  
> Now, this IS
> NOT the way it works today.  Would this approach meet your 
> requirement?
> 
> With this approach the notion of role becomes much more like 
> a notion of
> groups.

Actually the more I think about it, this suggestion of inheritated roles
would vastly simplify the roles I use on my site and make it a lot more
logical. Is this something that is a planned extension? If so, is it easy to
do (and hence possible for me to patch)?