[Zope] The orphans=3 feature: votes for/against?

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:09:12 +0100


<snip confusion about the value of orphan attribute>

> > The default value is 3. The online help will be updated
> > in the next Zope release.
> 
> I know we've covered this before, but the default value *should* be 0.  With
> this question having popped up so many times in the last year plus, I'm not
> sure why ZC hasn't changed it.  I noticed that this request is now "Pending"
> in collector #2468.  If votes count for anything, I vote for zero.

At the risk of adding unecessary noise to the list:

  Me too.

I can't see how changing this will actually break anything, though it
may mess up some layout.  It's so counterintuitive, it's like being
given a bike to ride and then somebody telling you after two hours of
you falling off, 'oh yeah, you can't ride it *forwards*, unless you
press this switch under the mudguard.'  At least, that's how I felt
about it the first time I spent a day trying to work out what was
going on.

seb