Re: [Zope] RE: URGENT: Can't start up zope

Martijn Pieters wrote:

If the Zope data stored in a RDMS can be accessed by other apps, this would be benificial to promoting Zope to people that think in RDMS's as an end to all Web Applications, even though I personally don't see a direct use for such access.

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. :^) --Paul