Paul Everitt wrote: [snippity snap]
Until the Catalog lands, our searchability story is poor. Fortunately the Catalog, when paired with Z Classes and Property Sheets, is turning out to be something that I think surpasses Notes' forms and searches. This will be shown and LinuxExpo and released thereafter. It will hopefully appear on zope.org before then. And yes, it will be below the line.
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Without the Catalog, Zope searches currently are a grep style "traverse everything on every request". With the Catalog, you should expect full-text/fielded searches on a 100,000 object Zope system to take about 0.2-0.8 seconds (rough guess, lots of variables involved).
The Catalog is based on Z Tables (a currently "above the line" piece of software). If you want to see Z Tables in action, join the Zope Documentation Project and write a bunch of docs, then index it :^)
Hey, so this means [snip obvious deduction about Z Tables and LinuxExpo date]! The catalog sounds interesting. Anyway, do join the ZDP! Get to work with marvellous Z Tables. Get the Zen of them! Write documentation on the Zen you got! Join the zdp@zope.org mailing list today! Go to http://zdp.zope.org for more information. Thanks for the ad for the ZDP, Paul. ;) Regards, Martijn