Re: Patch: HistoricalRevisions, atct_history support for annotation storage (used by newer ATCT)

Matt Hahnfeld <matth@...> writes:

> 
> New versions of ATContentTypes use Archetypes' annotation storage
> (Storage/annotation.py, annotations.py) for some fields.  Annotation
> storage was not supported by Zope's built in history feature, making it
> impossible to use a number of cool features that used to be standard, like
> the "history" tab mixin for ATCT, and Plone's history_form (still
> included, but broken, in 2.1.2).

Hi Matt,

This is very cool! :-)

Does this mean that the history tab starts working again for ATDocument (Page),
event, news etc. types?

Does it have tests?

> This is technically a patch to Zope (not Plone or ATCT), but since it
> directly relates to Archetypes/ATContentTypes I figured it would be best
> to post here.  If there is some way this could be added to the AT code
> instead of Zope code, that might be preferable -- but at this point it
> seems like the best file to patch is zope's OFS/History.

Understandable. Perhaps it can be put into Zope, or at least distributed as a
monkey patch. Andreas? Jensens?

Martin






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