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Why a "Product Line"?

 A fair question. Basically, on the mailing lists, there were discussions 
 about what kind of user management system should we have. There are two 
 main ones that come up in a membership oriented site.

Case 1: Users with Folders

    In the default PTK, as of this writing, users get a folder in which to 
    store their 'stuff'. this provides a user centric site orientation.

Case 2: Users without Folders

    In this scheme, all user data is stored in the user object.
    users may or may not be able to contribute content, but if they do, 
    the site admin will provide a means for them to add content to specific
    areas in the site. "www.libc.org":http://www.libc.org is an example of one
    such site currently in development.


The First Break

  I decided that since the easier of the two to generalize was the 
  Users without Folders scheme, I'd make that one first. Essentially, 
  to do this, I built upon the seperation started by Kevin. Membership provides 
  the basics, the base classes. The "subproducts" are !ZClass implementations
  of Login User objects, and the interfaces to make use of them.