[Zope] Re: Organisational vs. Functional hierarchies

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 18:03:21 EDT 2005


> > Acquisition can be handy for inheriting data (or rather,
> > configuration), but not methods.
> 
> Hmmm.... CMF skins (templates, Python Scripts, etc.) all work via
> acquisition;  "placeful" scripting in general relies on it heavily.
> There is admittedly a lot of extra machinery in place to make sure that
> CMF objects select the "right" templates, based on their 'portal_type',
> but CMF / Plone / CPS wouldn't work at all without the ability to
> acquire software.

Ah, and you create nice contained classes with CMF skins? Or, do all
object have all methods? CMF skins is not an object oriented
programming language either.

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Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo     http://www.nuxeo.com/
CPS Content Management     http://www.cps-project.org/


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