[Zope-dev] Re: Policy for Collector-Issues 545 and 1217?

[Maik Jablonski]

Jamie Heilman wrote:
> Maik Jablonski wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> there are two collector-issues related to problems when Zope-Objects get
>> ids like 'content_type' or 'URL1'. I think this problem exists for all
>> names used in the REQUEST-object or general acquisitionable attributes of
>> ObjectManagers.
>> 
>> http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/545
>> http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1217
>  
>> I don't think that these issues cannot easily be solved in Zope2 without
>> breaking the whole acquisition-magic.
> 
> Sure they can.  The problem is DTML and people not correctly limiting
> their namespace stacks when they should.  Its not pretty when fixed
> because the code gets extremely verbose, but thats price of DTML.
>  
>> What to do? The problem exists, but a fix is hard to find... if at all.
>> Accepting? Rejecting?
> 
> Accept, they are completely fixable.  I've probably already fixed
> those bugs in my fork, I'll hunt around and see if I can find the
> relevant files and post followups to the bugs.
> 

Sounds cool... I'm not sure if it's easy as you describe, but I hope so...:)

Cheers, Maik