On Friday 24 March 2006 17:33, Andreas Jung wrote: > >> - it has no maintainer, nobody wants to touch it without gloves > > > > Is that any more true than for lots of other things? > > Right, but for duplicate functionality that is not widely used and that I > consider buggy it is legitimate to propose the deprecation. But as usually > I am open to good arguments :-)
We have been using XML export/import with ERP5[1] in many production systems for a long time. Only this feature allows us to understand changes among different versions in a human readable format, and even to edit the contents by ordinary text editors. Without this feature, it is nearly impossible to work on large systems in a distributed way. XML export/import is so valuable to make a bridge between TTW development and distributed development with the technology Business Template[2,3]. To make the feature more convenient, we have locally developed some monkey patches[4,5] to Zope so that: - the output is more stable (i.e. the order of tags and the reference numbers are more stable) to make "diff" usable for human - unicode objects work fine, assuming that data should be encoded in UTF-8 We would be happy to submit our patches, if you think they are generally useful. [1] http://www.erp5.org [2] http://wiki.erp5.org/HowToCreateBusinessTemplates [3] http://wiki.erp5.org/HowToCreateBusinessTemplates [4] http://cvs.erp5.org/ERP5Type/patches/XMLExportImport.py [5] http://cvs.erp5.org/ERP5Type/patches/ppml.py YO -- Yoshinori Okuji, Nexedi CTO Nexedi: Consulting and Development of Free / Open Source Software http://www.nexedi.com ERP5: Full Featured High End Open Source ERP http://www.erp5.com ERP5 Wiki: Developer Zone for ERP5 Community http://wiki.erp5.org _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )