Flemming Funch <ffunch@worldtrans.org> wrote:

At 10:50 AM 3/9/00 -0800, you wrote:

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[Jerry Spicklemire, on Thu, 09 Mar 2000]

:: One point that I think is still evolving is a clear set of guidelines :: regarding what data is held in Zope, and what should be in other formats, :: such as Gadfly. As long as we diligently keep DTML doing templating, and :: avoid mixing tabular data and static content in with ZODB objects, it :: should be fairly straightforward to do Zope Exports of the Zope Framework, :: and file copies, or native exports of data in other "backends".

Evolving set of guidelines?

Can someone in the know take a crack at setting these down in writing?

Yeah, that would be very helpful.

As a Zope Newbie, who's developed lots of database stuff in PHP and Perl, I am unclear on whether I'm "supposed to" try to make everything an object in ZODB.

Say I'm making a repository of documents, like articles or e-mail messages, and I expect to end up with 100s of thousands of those, should I confidently work on making them all Zope objects, or should I stick with mySQL records and/or files in the file system, like I normally would?

Anthony Baxter has a How-To, "Choosing to store data in SQL vs ZODB", at: http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/sql_vs_ZODB -- ========================================================= Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com 713-523-6582 Palladion Software http://www.palladion.com