[Zope-CMF] DublinCore & ExtFile as meta type in CMF

[Gregor Heine]

Hi,

I just had a quick look on the impact of the changes in ExtFile 1.1.0 final on 
CMFOptions.
CMF Options includes a slightly modified version of ExtFile 1.1.0beta3 that 
includes some fixes to the beta release.
Since these these modifications are more or less all covered by the recent 
stable release (Jeff, coerrect me if I'm wrong), there is effectively no reason 
any more to bundle ExtFile with CMFOptions. 
Jeff, I think the best would be if you could publish a version of CMFOptions 
that ships without ExtFile, so people could always use it in conjuction with 
the latest ExtFile.
Never the less, if that is done, all users that want to upgrade their 
CMFOptions to the current version of ExtFile must run the UpgradePatch for 
ExtFile. I can publish a version of the UpgradePatch that includes upgrades 
of CMFOption objects as soon as a new version of it is available. 
BTW: I'm not sure, if that interests anybody here, but more or less the same 
is valid to ExtDocument 0.2 from Tim McLaughlin. It does not bundle a 
version ExtFile and thus still requires the beta release, because of some 
internal changes to ExtFile that affect ExtDocument aswell. So, people using 
this product must not upgrade to the current release of ExtFile until a 
compatible version of ExtDocument has been released.

Cheers,

Gregor.

> Hi, 
> 
> (Thanks to Tres Seaver for refering to CMFOptions) 
> 
> 
>   http://www.zope.org/Members/jeffsasmor/CMFOptions
> <http://www.zope.org/Members/jeffsasmor/CMFOptions>  
> CMF Options 1.0 (Stable) 2001/05/08 (including a copy of ExtFile (old
> version ?) ) 
> - compatible with CMF 
> - backup versions nice (as per ExtFile 1.1.0) 
> - var/reposit/a/b/name and number ( not so easy to work with ? ) 
> 
> 
> But note the date : ExtFile 1.1.0 (Stable) 2001/06/05 
> - not compatible with CMF as it is 
> - backup versions are nice 
> - var/reposit/.../file name etc (can sync to database structure - nice) 
> 
> 
> Are there any plans to merge the best of both ? 
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> Geoff 
> 
> 
> Geoff Benn wrote: 
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm very new at this - and I'm learning & trying to integrate ExtFile
> <http://www.zope.org/Members/MacGregor/ExtFile>  into CMF 1.1 beta and
> currently believe that I need to add the following into ExtFile.py (with
> suitable code in ExtFile's __init__ ): 
> 
> 
> >from DublinCore import DefaultDublinCoreImpl 
> 
> 
> This one line causes my portal_types to be omitted from the Add Content
> menu. 
> 
> 
> Anyone care to suggest where I should look next ? Has anyone added
> ExtFile into CMF as a meta type ? Are there any notes on how to add meta
> types ? 
> 
> 
> Note: I've earlier noticed that 
> - metadata_edit_form.dtml get's the 'Identifier' of a higher level
> folder rather than the 'id' of the new object. 
> - ExtFile uses descr rather than description. 
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> Geoff 
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