[ZODB-Dev] Persistent module notes and proposal

[Chris McDonough]

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 11:02, Jim Fulton wrote:
> One particular issue has to do with the scope of persistent modules.
> I propose that, at least for Zope 3, persistent modules should contain
> only software and that the state of persistent modules should be fully
> expressed by their source. This implied that persistent modules in Zope 3
> should not contain any objects that are mutated outside of the execution
> of the modules, such as registries, counters, etc.

+1.  It will always be possible to import some share filesystem module
to hold mutables.  We could even have a convention for that if
necessary.