[Zope] Temp Folder Magic

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:12:02 -0400


> Chris, I know "beggars can't be choosers", but seriously,
> I think it would be a big improvement of the code to put
> the above text into a nice sweet little comment block
> inside TemporaryFolder.py. The existing comments are
> inadequate (this is an amazing understatement).  It will
> do exactly as you wrote it.
> 
> <rant>
> Yes, it's open-source. Yes, no one is paying you for it.
> So what?  You released it because you want it to be used
> and improved. You want people to help you with it. You
> want people to document it for you (also for free, I
> might add).  And you don't really want to waste your
> time answering the same questions over and over again.
> So why are you shooting yourself in the foot by making
> it difficult for them?  Comments are cheap, and a real
> bargain in the long run.
> </rant>

Done.

> Anyway I disagree on the design decision. No offense,
> but I have to live with it, so I'll gamble on my own
> judgement.

Sure.

> 
> Anyway -- thanks for the description of how TemporaryFolder
> is meant to work. And I guess you must be the author of
> the module itself, in which case, thanks for that too,
> it's a nice addition to Zope.

No problem, glad it was useful.

- C