Re: [Zope-CMF] RFC: PAS and the (non?) future of members

2006-02-03 Thread robert rottermann
Rob, we are in the midst off creating a Zope/Plone structure for a cluster of Universities here in Switzerland. I have been using CMF-Member in a number of sites and have never been happy with it. This stems mainly from the fact that I used a very early version for which no clean upgrade path

[Zope-CMF] RFC: PAS and the (non?) future of members

2006-02-02 Thread Rob Miller
hi all, i'm wondering if it's not time to rethink the entire idea of members as they currently exist in CMF. members were originally a necessary evil, because the user folder implementation of users didn't allow for enough flexibility to support CMF's needs. now, however, PAS makes it possible

Re: [Zope-CMF] RFC: PAS and the (non?) future of members

2006-02-02 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
On 2 Feb 2006, at 15:35, Rob Miller wrote: even if the content-based plug-ins are not desireable, i think it's still worth investigating the use of PAS and the idea of deprecating the member/user duality altogether. anyone else interested in this approach? It does sound interesting,

Re: [Zope-CMF] RFC: PAS and the (non?) future of members

2006-02-02 Thread J Cameron Cooper
Rob Miller wrote: i'm wondering if it's not time to rethink the entire idea of members as they currently exist in CMF. members were originally a necessary evil, because the user folder implementation of users didn't allow for enough flexibility to support CMF's needs. now, however, PAS makes