2 Aug
2002
2 Aug
'02
3:49 p.m.
--On Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:13:29 PM -0400 Shane Hathaway <shane@zope.com> wrote:
It's really only a theoretical problem. To store the extra data about folderish objects, you can save the data in a hidden file called, for example, ".properties". The theoretical problem is that someone might give an object that name, since it's perfectly legal. In practice, you can just prevent people from creating Zope objects with a name that starts with a dot. 99% of the users won't mind at all, and those that do can use two dots instead. :-)
Doesn't Subversion support versioned emi-arbitrary properties for objects? If so, much common metadata could be expressed as properties, saving special maybe hidden files for the complex and uncommon cases.