[Zope-CMF] Re: Pacefull vs Placeless

[Rob Miller]

Tres Seaver wrote:

> Julien Anguenot wrote:
> 
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> We have the Placeful workflows within CPS3. It's a fairly easy 
>> implementation actually.
>>
>> http://cvs.nuxeo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/CPS3/CPSCore/CPSWorkflowConfiguration.py?rev=1.10&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup 
>>
>>
>> + a small hook on the getChainsFor() of the workflow tool.
>>
>> The code can be backported easily to Plone.
>>
>> Maybe it could be interesting to add this within the CMF ?
> 
> 
> I had already contemplated adding something on a per-instance basis; 
> making it "placeful" wouldn't be any harder.

+1 to this approach.  while containment-based workflow specification 
would, i'm sure, be a popular use-case, it's hardly the only one.  if 
it's not too difficult to allow other mechanisms for associating 
instances with workflows, let's allow for that flexibility.

-r