[Zope-dev] Zope 2.4.0 CopySupport changes seem wrong

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:16:44 -0400


I'm not completely sure I understand the problem (rushed for time at the
moment), but it was me who f'ed up the trunk and 2.4 in order to service
the collector.  Can anybody provide a suggestion as to what to do in
order to unbreak formulator and address the original collector issue's
problem?

- C


Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:19:29 +0200, Martijn Faassen
> <faassen@vet.uu.nl> wrote:
> 
> >I've just tracked down a bug that suddenly appeared with Formulator used
> >on Zope 2.4.0. The problem is with renaming fields (which are objects
> >in an ObjectManager).
> 
> Im not using 2.4 yet, but I am sure this will be a problem for me too.
> 
> >Hm, apparently it was an attempt to fix this collector item:
> >
> >http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector/2257/view
> 
> That collector article describes a very real problem, but the solution
> proposed (which is now in the Zope trunk, and causes the problem
> Martijn discovered) is fundamentally flawed.
> 
> The article describes a ZODB-hosted object which is a link to a file
> in the filesystem. The author wants the file deleted when the object
> is deleted, and not when it is renamed. A better solution to this
> problem involves deferring the file deletion until the end of the
> transaction, and only doing it if the link was not resurrected in
> another object. (The Collector doesnt disclose the email address of
> who reported it... is the original author listening? )
> 
> Toby Dickenson
> tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
> 
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