At 10:39 14-6-99 , Paul Everitt wrote:
On a technical level, since the data in the RDBMS record is a pickled Python instance, it would be basically unusable to other applications. You'd gain a "standard" for record management, but not one for data management.
On an abstract level, the statement "if Zope data can be accessed by other applications" seems to be a pretty clear violation of encapsulation, but that's just the object zealot party line. :^)
Yeah right, as if python enforces this =) I realized that the RDMS will hold pickles, that's why there might be the need for tools to unpickle them. Like Zope, haha. I explained this to my colleagues. I thik they still feel uncomfertable with the fact that the data is of use only to Zope. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------