On 8 March 2011 16:26, Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-3-8 17:08, Godefroid Chapelle wrote: >> Hello, >> >> GenericSetup has global registries for profiles and steps. >> >> They are a PITA when testing. >> >> For instance, plone.app.testing has to make a complicated dance to >> record and restore their state. > > How come? There is a very simple cleanup function for them iirc? > >> In branch gotcha-registries-use-utilities, I have removed those global >> storages. >> >> The profiles and steps are instead registered as global named utilities. > > I'm not convinced using the ZCA makes sense for this. The steps are a > simple list of hooks indexed by name, and the ZCA is massive overkill > for that purpose and very painful to introspect.
While the ZCA registry may be overkill for a particular case in isolation, when Zope is taken as a whole it is simpler to deal with one registry implementation than many differing ones. So +1 for moving this to the global ZCA registry. Laurence _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope-cmf/ for bug reports and feature requests
