Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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On 25 Apr 2006, at 15:08, Chris Withers wrote:
Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
I sent an email about this a couple days ago. Basically, I'm down to
one failing unit test in CMFUid and have discovered that CMFUid is
basically broken in 2.0/trunk. I also sent an email on this issue to
the list, hoping that the developers who wrote CMFUid and lobbied
hard to get it included would take notice and do something about it
(or at least acknowledge it), but all I see is silence so far.
At least I have found what the problem with CMFUid is, and it is
mostly a misunderstanding how it is supposed to work. Mea culpa. I'm
still left with the one failing unit test on the events branch, though.
Having such an unknown and unmaintained piece of code in the core of
the cmf scares me.
How would people feel about deprecating it for 2.1 and removing it in
2.3 if no-one steps up who wants it?
Well, I have my own opinion about that, but the course of action depends
mostly on those people who are using it. No one seems to, judged by the
complete silence.
Grégoire Weber is the one that coded it and included it.
As I have found, it is only used in one specific situations: If you
create a Favorite pointing to a piece of content, then that piece gets
tagged with a UID, and the UID identifies the content piece for the
Favorite. So you can copy/paste/whatever the content and the Favorite
still knows how to find it.
Given that it's unmaintained, that Plone has its own UID tool, that CPS does
it differently, I'm for deprecating it quickly and slating it for removal
earlier than the usual 1 year.
I've also alreay pointed out the overengineering of having 3 tools for a
simple UID management.
Florent
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