[Pythoncard-users] ZODB Persistence

Patrick suggested that we use ZODB for our PythonCard persistence. 
After looking into the shelve stuff and then looking at ZODB, my 
sense is that eventually we'd like to support both via an API that 
just deals with persistence.transparently.

But in the near term, I'd personally prefer to use ZODB for a lot of 
reasons, some technical and some selfish. However, I wonder about 
what this does to the already limited universality of PythonCard. 
We'd require people to download a standalone ZODB as part of 
installing PythonCard (or bundle it with the install, bloating it in 
the process). We get shelve for free in Python.

So while I really agree with Patrick and would be inclined to prefer 
ZODB for all my projects, I just wanted to raise the issue about ZODB 
on the list for feedback.


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