[Zope-CMF] Re: future of getToolByName

whit whit at burningman.com
Tue Jan 17 09:45:16 EST 2006


> It was the promise that 'getToolByName' would always just do
> the right thing (TM) so that add-on developers would not have
> to worry. So why deprecating that now?
> 
> Am I missing something?
>

that's what I thought too...

deprecation may be unnecessary, but the queryUtility api is a bit 
different than getToolByName.  My feeling was that getToolByName should 
still work, but let you know something else was available.

-w



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