On 26 Apr 2000 11:10:01 -0500, Chris Withers wrote:
Is it okay to use TinyTables (as in Zope 2.2 or 2.3 aren't going to break them...)?
TinyTables uses pretty simple constructs that hopefully won't break in a future version of Zope. Can't imagine it would be a big task to fix if something does break.
TinyTables make a good place to store configuration data. I guess like PropertySheets, except they can hold a table-like property. Maybe Propertysheets need a TinyTable property type :-)
Almost two years ago I was petitioning DC to provide a small, searchable, tabular Principia (before Zope) data structure that could be used for just these sorts of things. Best I could figure, the DC folks just had a completely different world view on the topic. :^) (This was before we had The Source). The DC folks were certainly looking much further down the road than I was, but I just needed something simple and 'now'. Anyway, TinyTables came out of that need. One one hand, it was almost overkill for what I wanted, but Ty did such a good job with it that it became useful for lots of other applications and I most certainly didn't complain. I think it'd be great to have a more integrated (small) tabular data structure. What would it have that TinyTables doesn't provide? Both Ty and I have come up with additional capabilities to TinyTables, but it was then no longer *Tiny*...