"R. David Murray" wrote:
1) what is the practical limit on the number of entries in a folder, and is there some way to get around this for instances where you want to use the ZODB as a database for a large number of records?
A few months ago I experimented with a BTreeObjectManager (and a BTreeFolder). I told The Other Mike Pelletier that I would give him the code, and since you've brought this up I'll give it to you and the whole list. Attached is a small .tgz file that contains the Product which I verified for about five minutes will at least import into a Zope 2.1.4 without any syntax errors. That's the extent of my debugging. Note that I KNOW that this is buggy is some way that was not immediatly clear to me, I think it had to do with acquisition and authentication (ouch!). So, BEWARE. In fact, it has already sorta broken the sandbox I put it in to make this distribution. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE IN A PRODUCTION SYSTEM. THIS IS ALPHA. THIS SOFTWARE COULD DESTROY YOUR SOUL AND LIGHT YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE. -Michel