RE: [Pythoncard-users] ZODB Persistence

At 3:02 PM -0600 2/7/02, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
>Well, we don't have complete freedom in this area. For example, in order for
>an object to be able to be persisted to a ZODB storage, that object's class
>(somewhere in the hierarchy) must inherit from the ZODB Persistent class. So
>in a way this is an all or nothing choice at some level. My inclination is
>to pick something, dive in with both feet, make it work, then step back and
>evaluate the situation to see if it is the right thing for Pythoncard in the
>long term. I need to get my hands dirty. (Plus I have a real app I need to
>build very soon.)

Absolutely. I'm in the same boat.

I'm off to look at MetaKit. I'll get back with reactions.

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>Patrick K. O'Brien
>Orbtech
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: pyt...@li...
>>  [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Dan
>>  Shafer
>>  Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:35 PM
>>  To: pyt...@li...
>>  Subject: [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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