On 9/25/07, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you want to remove an index or column you can do that by editing > the profile and adding remove="True" to that index or column. So this > upgrade can be represented as a profile edit. But applying the > profile will empty the remaining indexes that are mentioned in that > profile. So ideally I would want to apply the profile only once when > installing and rely on upgrade steps to handle any further changes > without applying that complete profile again. > > It seems the new upgrade steps do not really solve this particular use > case then. (It can sure be handy for other things, no doubt about > that.) But I had hopes to use them to work around this issue with > catalog.xml. Apparently a workaround is no substitute for really > solving the problem. ;-) > > Is anyone going to the sprints after the Plone conference who wants to > take a shot at this with me? Preferably someone with commit rights. :-)
Well, I made a monkey-patch that I haven't merged yet that only did that if the index definition had actually changed, and that was quite trivial. I would appreciate more people looking at this, since this was so easy I get suspiscious. :-) So at the Plone conf seems a good time. > > performing a full upgrade, then, would require reapplying the profile > > configuration and running the upgrade steps. reasonably the quickinstaller > > (or even the GS interface) could do this all as one step. > > Right. Or a warning could be displayed: "This profile has upgrade > steps available; do you want to run them?" CPS listed all upgradeSteps whose version numbers where higher then the numbers of the last upgrades, and had a button to run them. You could also select which to run, and list old steps, and (re-)run them. Since this is a merge of the CPS functionality (and thanks for that Rob, I never understood why Nuxeo branched GenericSetup instead of improving the original one, maybe there was a good reason) I hope there may be something similar here? -- Lennart Regebro: Zope and Plone consulting. http://www.colliberty.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Zope-CMF maillist - Zope-CMF@lists.zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-cmf See http://collector.zope.org/CMF for bug reports and feature requests