[ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

[Laurence Rowe]

On 28 June 2010 19:31, Nitro <nitro at dr-code.org> wrote:
> Am 28.06.2010, 16:52 Uhr, schrieb Laurence Rowe <l at lrowe.co.uk>:
>
>> So why don't we all work on the same packages? The main reason is one
>> of legacy. Plone is built on Zope2 and ZCatalog. It works, but it is
>> not without it's issues - we can't have queries that join from that
>> catalog to a zc.relation catalog. Standalone ZCatalog failed because
>> it came to early - Zope2 was only recently eggified, so to be
>> successful the standalone ZCatalog would need to be used in Zope2.
>> Nobody has bothered with this because non-legacy code shouldn't be
>> using ZCatalog anyway - there are newer and better ways of doing it.
>
> Oh, nice to know. I was already writing test cases for standalone ZCatalog
> integration in my project as all other indices seemed tied to plone :)

In general, if it's not on PyPI it doesn't exist as far as the Zope
world is concerned. (I can't find any references to standalone
ZCatalog after 2005.)

Laurence