Re: Our story for re-using content types

Martin Aspeli <optilude@...> writes:

> Let's say I have a content type Staff that holds some basic contact details,
> and another type Project. Staff can be a member of the project, and this is
> modelled with a reference from Project -> Staff called projectMember.
> 
> I may build some clever functionality into Staff and Project, but any
> organisation wishing to use this product will probably want to manage their
> own metadata and view templates for staff information and project
> information. The problem is - how do they re-use this?


Hopefully this is related --

Since hearing Alan R. say that one should always program defensively and
redefine classes:

  from Bluh import ClassA
  
  def MyClassA(ClassA):
      pass

...this made me how to actually do this in practice. What happens to:
  * all the installation code you use for ClassA
  * how meta_type, portal_type, archetype_name of the classes work, how they
show up in add menus (both? by waht name?)
  * any other interactions between ClassA and other portal objects (e.g., if it
looks up info in a property sheet, or a vocabulary manager, etc.)


How does all of this get managed in a clean way? Seems like a combination of
good standardized coding practices to allow redefining easily, plus some changes
in Archetypes.


Peace,
George



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