[zope2-tracker] [Bug 655773] Re: No Help link nor API docs available from the ZMI

[Toni Mueller]

Hi Hanno,

On Wed, 06.10.2010 at 15:12:33 -0000, Hanno Schlichting <hanno at hannosch.eu> wrote:
> The integrated Zope help hadn't been updated for the past 8 years. We
> therefor decided to remove it in favor of the at least slightly updated
> documentation available at http://docs.zope.org/zope2/.

this simply doesn't cut it. See below.

> Note that developing applications from inside the ZMI is not recommended
> anymore and mostly unsupported. It's been this way ever since Zope 2.9
> with the uptake of Zope Toolkit technologies.

External methods are not developed from within the ZMI, but need to
make use of the Zope API, which is largely undocumented as of "now".

The Zope developer guide presents only parts of the API, and only those
which are relevant for product development, which is *not* what I'm
trying to do.

> ** Changed in: zope2
>        Status: New => Won't Fix

Dang! This way, you imho simply obstruct a significant use case which
is recommended to be used: External methods are afaik "state of the
art" for at least bulk importing data into Plone.

I do realize that the old documentation was quite far from perfect, but
it was usable in several aspects. Now you simply throw it away,
blindfolding everyone who is not a 10+ years native Zope hacker.

Please rethink your decision, or provide other ideas about how users
should work with this case.


Kind regards,
--Toni++

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