Re: Re: GenericSetup support

Rocky Burt <[email protected]> Thu, 04 May 2006 08:28:02 -0230
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.archetypes.devel
Organization ServerZen Software
Message-ID <1146740266.27027.3.camel@localhost>
On Thu, 2006-04-05 at 10:30 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> > From what I have seen so far, the only sensible option for Plone 3.0 /
> > Archetypes 1.5 will be to support FTI creation only through GenericSetup
> > profiles. All the current magic (like installTypes) in Archetypes (as
> > well as in ATContentTypes and CMFDynamicViewFTI) is basically broken.
> 
> Agreed. I'm not sure how this should work; perhaps it would be
> interesting to build a standalone tool that loads a content type and
> exports its FTI information and we can use that.

Well, as Rob pointed out it should be possible to fix up Archetypes for
a deprecation period where it invokes the same api as the GenericSetup
profile stuff to create types that way Archetypes old way will still
work for a while longer.

- Rocky

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