[Zope] breadcrumbs ques

[Jens Vagelpohl]

have you ever grepped through zope's core to look how often it is used? 
i don't really care about discussion threads from over a year ago that 
have gone by and never come back, i look at CHANGES.txt, HISTORY.txt 
and the usage patterns in current code. i think that's a pretty 
accurate picture whether something is deprecated or not.

jens

On Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, at 12:03 US/Eastern, Chris Withers wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>> no, PARENTS is absolutely not deprecated. chris just likes to make 
>> blanket statements like that...
>
> Of course, and I can never back them up ;-)
>
> Dieter obviously read the same stuff I did:
> http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zpt/2001-December/002635.html
> ...maybe you could ask him where?
>
> And of course there's the point you make:
>> if you read HISTORY.txt it mentions PARENTS in a single context: for 
>> user validation purposes the new REQUEST.PUBLISHED is preferred over 
>> pulling the published object out of REQUEST.PARENTS.
> ...why was this change made if there was nothing wrong with PARENTS?
>
> Now that said, I agree with you that there's not much documentation on
> _why_ it was deprecated (if it was), and I can't find the discussions 
> around the time
> when I remember it being deprecated(if it was) (my memory tells me the 
> discussions were over a year ago...), which is a shame.
>
> Still, I have memories of REQUEST.steps, REQUEST.PARENTS and various 
> Virtual Hosting discussions around the same time, so maybe you can 
> research further and prove me wrong, since you seem to take pleasure 
> from that.
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>