[Zope] the misc_ dictionary

[Martijn Pieters]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:17:00PM +0100, Erik Enge wrote:
> [Martijn Pieters]
> 
> | As for your try/except construct, this one of the first things that Shane
> | Hathaway made unnecessary by hardening the registration process.
> 
> Ok, for which version?  This __init__.py was initally written back in
> September :)

I believe that the last bug preventing logging of Product import and
initialization exceptions was squashed in the 2.2.1 release; output of
tracebacks was fixed.

> | The rs.rs class can the also omit the icon property.
> 
> Yeah, but what about all the other classes in the rs Product?  They
> still have to have the icon property, and then it starts drift a bit:
> some classes their icon definition ?in themselves?, while this one
> (rs) doesn't.  Correct?  If so, I don't like that, and don't think
> I'll use it.  Can't really see why it would be benefitial actually,
> I'm probably missing something here.

It is a simplification of the most common case; usually only registered
classes appear in the ZMI and therefor need an icon.

Indeed, if you have a Product that has classes that will also appear in
the ZMI, but have no need to be registered (because they aren't
user-addable?) then the old method may be easier to maintain for you.

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Martijn Pieters
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