[Zope-CMF] BTreePortalFolder?

[Tres Seaver]

Alan Runyan wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> my Members folder is going to grow to approximately 2-3 thousand folders
> easily.  maybe even more.  my question is will I have any problems besides
> viewing it through ZMI?  Will there be any performance issues with a Portal
> Folder holding that many objects?
> 
> I tried to replace Members with a BTreeFolder and I ran into the fact that
> PortalContent doesnt support operations on normal Zope Folderish objects.  I
> tried to mix the two using ZClasses.  Doesnt work either -
> BTreeFolder was the first one in the Base class list then
> CMFCore.PortalFolder. 8(
> 
> any ideas?  should I make a BTreePortalFolder?  I would rather not.  If the
> ZMI is the only part that will suffer then I can figure out ways around
> that.

Dan Pierson has already created a BTree-backed portal folder:


  http://cmf.zope.org/Members/dlpierson/CMFBTree-0-1-2.tar.gz/view



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