Okay. I prepared the "zope.copy" package in the SVN for you to check out what I mean. :)
2009/2/8 Dan Korostelev <nad...@gmail.com>: > After looking at the whole copy thing for some more time, I thought > that it even makes sense to extract the object cloning functionality > to some "zope.copy" (or even "zope.persistentcopy") package that will > contain clone and copy functions as well as ICopyHook mechanism, but > won't contain IObjectCopier implementation, because the "clone" and > "copy" functions from zc.copy are useful without any container > context. Then zope.copypastemove and zope.location could just depend > on the zope.copy, so we won't introduce many dependencies for > zope.location and make people able to easily copy persistent objects > w/o installing on zope.copypastemove or even zope.location. > > 2009/2/8 Dan Korostelev <nad...@gmail.com>: >> The README.txt of zc.copy says that the components, provided by this >> package is apropriate for inclusion in Zope itself. >> >> The package provides a more pluggable mechanism for copying generic >> persistent objects (not only ILocation's) as well as a way to register >> post-copy hooks to be executed, which is very useful, for example when >> dealing with persistent objects that have non-ZODB bits (like >> filesystem based files related and so on). However, the package is >> really small and mostly contains modified copies of >> zope.copypastemove's ObjectCopier and zope.location's locationCopy. >> >> So, I propose to merge the zc.copy package's changes with original >> zope.copypastemove/zope.location and deprecate it. If noone objects, >> I'll do that myself. >> >> -- >> WBR, Dan Korostelev >> > > > > -- > WBR, Dan Korostelev > -- WBR, Dan Korostelev _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )