[Zope] Deleting folder-like objects.

[Bill Anderson]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> John Morton wrote:
> > 1) You can delete them with the same practiced easy as any other object,
> > along with everything in it. No 'Are you sure you want to shoot yourself
> > in the foot' dialogs, or anything. (How hard to implement with
> > manage_beforeDelete?)
> 
> Remember that Zope has an 'Undo' button... ;-)
> (and in fact, a whole history tab in the CVS version, I think...)

I don't think the History tab is for folders. It gets
nasty-complicated. Really fast.
 
> > 2) Deleting a folder effectively removes everything under it (well, you
> > can't navigate to them, AFAIK), but it doesn't invoke the
> > manage_beforeDelete methods of it's decendants. Any reason for this, or
> > should I proceed straight to the bug collector?
> 
> I'm pretty sure they are deleted, but not calling manage_beforeDelete
> seems stupid to me. I presume this is the reason that CatalogAware
> objects that get deleted like this don't remove themselves from the
> catalog (leaving a nasty mess behind them...)

Yeah, that can be annoying.