Re: [Zope-dev] Re: AdaptableStorage

2003-02-05 Thread Shane Hathaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Shane I have been thinking about this last night. I think you should provide some sort of out of band signalling method. But given that Adaptable Storage sits below ZODB, which sit's below Zope, I feel that the signalling method should be directed at the lowest level

Re: [Zope-dev] absolute_url: why not publishable?

2003-02-05 Thread Paul Winkler
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:08:35PM -0500, Shane Hathaway wrote: > I don't know whether absolute_url should be accessible via URL, but > here's a way to get the same thing (almost): add a script at the root of > your site called "AbsoluteURL", with the body "return > context.absolute_url()". The

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: AdaptableStorage

2003-02-05 Thread Shane Hathaway
Shane Hathaway wrote: That would be pretty cool, since it's easy for scripts to add to the queue, and it gives you plenty of granularity. It wouldn't work under Windows, though, AFAIK. Maybe on Windows we could call back to a network socket that accepts the same kind of data. Oops, I meant "

Re: [Zope-dev] absolute_url: why not publishable?

2003-02-05 Thread Shane Hathaway
Paul Winkler wrote: Visit foo/absolute_url and you will find that it "has an empty or missing docstring". Is this by design, or is it just something that nobody has needed? I would like to propose making it callable TTW, unless somebody knows a reason it should not be. I don't know whether absol

[Zope-dev] absolute_url: why not publishable?

2003-02-05 Thread Paul Winkler
Visit foo/absolute_url and you will find that it "has an empty or missing docstring". Is this by design, or is it just something that nobody has needed? I would like to propose making it callable TTW, unless somebody knows a reason it should not be. I could make use of it in two ways: 1) every n

Re: [Zope-dev] Why is it _setObject(), and why is it undocumented

2003-02-05 Thread Florent Guillaume
Dieter Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think an additional reason for the "_" in the name of > "_setObject" is to prevent acquisition. > > With acquisition, you may not set the object where you think you will. Ah, that's a very good argument. (Another reason why implicit acquisition is ba

[Zope-dev] Does zope still need a python compiled with "--without-pymalloc" ?

2003-02-05 Thread Dario Lopez-Kästen
Hi, well, the subject says it all. Why was it needed at all? I still compile my python --without-pymalloc from the pre-python-2.1.3 days when zope suffered from bugs in python. I nowadays use Zope-2.5.1 and python 2.1.3, mostly. Thanks, /dario - ---