Re: Schema-by-interface options

George Lee <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:31:22 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.archetypes.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > In the meantime, my proposal is fairly low-risk and could bring a lot of
> > benefits quickly (witness the amount of people who ask, "I'd like to add
> > some company-specific metadata to each content type on my site" and get
> > the answer "oh, erm, well, you could subclass everything, or you could
> > monkey patch BaseObject"). In fact, Ben once said that the reason we
> > made Schema() a method in the first place was that we wanted to make it
> > possible to pull the schema in from other sources than just a
> > class-attribute.
> 
> +100. I like it, and it solves a lot of real use cases for developers -  
> today, without having to invest a lot of time learning new stuff.


As one of those developers, I'd like to second this ... this would be amazing.

How does the decision-making process and timeline for Archetypes work? I've been
eagerly checking the list to see if there's been any decision made on this...

Peace,
George


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