[ZODB-Dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] PROPOSAL: ZODB Relationships

[Chris Withers]

Roché Compaan wrote:
> 
> I was already convinced by previous posts that associations (formerly
> relationships) need direction but when you mentioned the reason above I
> thought "Now that is super cool if we solve this" :-) I forget how much
> it bugs me that I can't easily involve objects in multiple hierarchies
> in Zope.

Yeah, and the other biggy: having a single object appear at multiple points in a 
hierarchy.

The tragedy is that ZODB can do this quite easily but, for reasons that are 
still beyond me, Zope strongly discourages this :-(

cheers,

Chris