Hi Rob!
Rob Miller wrote:
i'm picking up a thread from january that sort of petered out...
yuppie wrote:
Tres Seaver wrote:
Florent Guillaume wrote:
Because the "current base profile id" is not stored, there's no way to
do detect the change to a different base profile. Should I store that
property to allow for that use case?
Yes. In fact, I would prefer to be able to introspect both "current
base profile" and "applied extension profiles" from the tool.
I don't want to go down that road.
I have to refine this statement: *For now* I don't want to go down that
road. In the long run I think we have to keep track of applied profiles.
That would help to make the setup tool more powerful and to implement
features like reloading or uninstalling. But AFAICS doing this right
requires a major refactoring and would come to late for CMF 1.6 or 2.0.
The next step would be to keep
track of the applied profiles a snapshot is based on. Things become
more and more complicated and we still can't rely on that information:
Sites created with older CMF versions don't have that information and
manual customizations can make it quite useless.
i, on the other hand, am very interested in being able to see which
profiles have been applied. i don't think it's unreasonable to record
and expose this. of course this can't be treated as the final word on
the current site configuration, but just because someone may have done
further manual configuration doesn't seem to me a good reason to make it
harder to figure out which profiles have been applied in the first place.
i'm going to cut a branch to experiment a bit w/ implementing this. in
the meantime, this conversation can continue. if the consensus ends up
being against these features, i can put any code from the branch in at
the Plone level.
I can see that this information might be useful, but it doesn't
represent a state of the tool or the site. It has more the character of
(sometimes incomplete) history information and I'd prefer to use the
logging machinery for that.
What about adding that information to the import logs and creating an
import log for the initial site creation as well?
Cheers,
Yuppie
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