Lennart Regebro wrote at 2009-3-9 17:09 +0100: >On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 15:56, Dieter Maurer <die...@handshake.de> wrote: >> The "product_name" parameter used to be mandatory -- thus all >> calls to "ToolInit" had to use it. >> Then, a means was found to derive it automatically >> from the context. The developper was so happy that he wanted all >> others immediately drop the parameter -- result: several dozens of >> deprecation >> warnings for each start -- in trivial cases, where the automatically >> derived information was identical to the explicitly provided.... >> I called out "what a stupidity".... > >I agree that this deprecation warning is pointless. The parameter can >just stay there and be ignored, no need to warn. But the description >of the change is incorrect, the decision to ignore the parameter was >for reason, not just because we could, even if I don't exactly >remember what the reason was now. :)
The parameter was pointless in the first place. One and only one value for it worked -- the one that could be determined automatically. Thus, it was good to get rid of it -- just the deprecation warning was silly: instead, a value different from the only correct one should have resulted in an exception. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ 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 )
