Re: [Webmacro-devel] Voting on the ContextTool issue?

[Keats <ke...@ea...>]

> 1) They provide no extra-special capabilities, other than having access
> to the Context itself.  Access to the Context is really unnecessary for
> tools (none of our stock tools make use of this) and complicates the
> finalization of the context.  In fact, most of our CTs are simple
> wrappers for static classes.

You're forgetting about:

$Request
$Response
$Cookie
$Session
$Form
$FormList
$CGI
$Variable
$Template

and probably some more.

These guys work and have almost zero overhead if you don't use them, so why
not keep it around, at least for a while?

Keats