Re: Removing profile selection in plone-addsite view

I've merged the changes into master.


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Luca Fabbri <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Roel Bruggink <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone have a problem with removing the profile selection field in
> the
> > plone-addsite view?
> >
> > I've been told that applying a profile for addon products directly in the
> > plone-addsite view often fails in "mysterious ways". Personally I never
> use
> > this field and it's fairly intimidating to new Plone users (using the
> > Unified Installer for instance). It'll probably be better to refer them
> to
> > the control panel.
> >
> > I've only removed the field in the form, so adding a Plone site
> > programmatically still allows you to add addon products directly.
> >
> > https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/pull/65
> >
>
> I'm +1 for removing it: user don't understand this and it has some limit:
>
> * it will display all profiles (too much, and also uninstall profiles are
> shown)
> * some add-ons (some versions of flowplayer for sure) displays two
> profiles with an identical name.
> * for old add-ons: if some operations are executed inside the
> Extenstions/install.py/install function and then the method itself
> call for an install profile, the flag will simply run the profile.
>
> --
> -- luca
>
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>



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