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[Olivier Dony <odo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/16/2013 02:52 PM, Niels Huylebroeck wrote:
>     For the rest, it might be better to put them in extra modules and offer a
>     configuration interface similar to v7's "Settings" checkboxes, possibly via
>     an index module, as Niels suggests. But you should watch out for
>     updatability - a stable series ideally requires modules to be frozen at the
>     data model level, and this won't be the case if you need to add an extra
>     column in the settings model whenever you add a "tweak" module.
>
>
> The idea would be that this is a TransientModel thus model stability should
> matter very little correct ?

No, TransientModels are database-backed (for statelessness reasons) so it does 
matter as much as for regular Models.


>     Perhaps you could do this via a module naming convention or module category
>     naming convention? Let's say your "index module" adds an extra Settings
>     page: it could dynamically generate checkboxes to install any local module
>     that matches the given prefix or belongs to the special category. The
>     module summary and [sub]category could be sufficient to present a
>     meaningful config page without actually needing to install the modules, and
>     without changing the actual data model when a new module is available.
>     It sounds like a lot of overhead to manage a few tweaks, though.
>
> Naming conventions are a pain, subjective and do not reflect the idea behind a
> module very efficiently. Nor do users know what to look for if they are not
> familiar with OpenERP terminology.

I don't see why auto-detecting modules that belong to a special predefined 
category would represent an issue, either for user-friendliness or for 
conveying the module's meaning (implementation detail?). Actually that's what 
the accounting system does to detect the available chart of accounts: any 
module that belongs to the "Localization/Account Charts" category will be 
dynamically added to the selection box.
Anyway, that was just a random idea.. ;-)