[Grok-dev] megrok.rdb feedback

[Martijn Faassen]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 19:27, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What I haven't looked at yet
> 
> Oh, and making Models which is storage-Agnostic is an interesting
> topic for the future too. ;) I want that.

Not a goal of megrok.rdb. I see people talking about wanting this once 
every while, but I don't see the point of the exercise myself. If you 
are storage-agnostic, this means you can't use the strong points of a 
particular storage in your code, meaning you lose the benefits...

> I guess that means a sort of field system which wraps whatever fields
> you are actually using. But that's speculation for now.
> 
> I would love to see a Grok CMS that could store it's data wherever. :)

I think the ZODB is quite nice in allowing different storage backends, 
but that's not what you're talking about.

I think it is possible to build a CMS that at least allowed different 
kinds of content objects to be stored separately. I can even envision 
that in particular use cases you have multiple implementations of a 
content object, that each store data differently, and a configurable 
utility that is a factory for these objects. There needs to be a strong 
use case for the latter scenario, though. I don't see much point in 
allowing a single object to store its data wherever, however.

Regards,

Martijn