I was thinking of some of my development problems with Zope -- for example, it's difficult to work on code at home, tar it up, bring it to work and change it some more, take it home again ... -- and realized that being able to split up the object database into multiple files could help. Imagine if you could have several Data.bbb files, each holding some subset of the database's objects. This might be done by specifying into which file an object goes; the object's children go into the same file, unless they're explicitly moved into another file. That would let you put changeable, irreplaceable data like user folders, user settings, etc. in one Bobobase file, and static things like DTML pages into another file. Updating to a new version of the DTML would then require shutting down the Zope server, replacing the Bobobase file with a modified version, and restarting; the user settings would be unaffected by the change. Disclaimer: I haven't looked into the implementation at all, and have no idea if this is trivial, painful, or completely impossible. -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ Too little freedom makes life confusingly clumsy; too much, clumsily confusing. Luckily, the tension between freedom and restraint eventually gets severed by Guido's Razor. -- Tim Peters, 29 Apr 1998