On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:00:24PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: | I don't have any mystic power that allows me to understand any Zope | application. I am also not a CMF developer.
That's something I never understood. It's not only a problem with Jim, but people that can understand the most obscure issues about memory management or deep C-level hackery, or insane operating system level APIs or and Linux kernel issues, sometimes with 5-10 years of Python experience, just state that they don't have enough knowledge to debug a random application. C'mon. There's not any magic going on there. The hardest issues you will face are Acquisition and Page Templates. Sometimes you have to just do it. Several times I've found myself in this situation. There's nothing that can't be understood by stepping through pdb all the way from BaseRequest to the guts of an application. I know it's tedious, and that it might take several tries until you realize what's exactly going on. But it is doable. There's a difference between 'I can't do it' and 'I don't want to do it'. Being in the latter group is fine, but I would say it's highly questionable for an experienced developer to put himself in the first group without a reasonable excuse. Sorry for the rant. I don't want to be pointing fingers. I'm just tired of hearing the same excuses over and over everytime someone mentions touching the software behind zope.org. -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214 _______________________________________________ Zope-web maillist - Zope-web@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-web