[Zope-dev] Product Data Storage

[Chris Withers]

Loren Stafford wrote:
> In that case we decided to put the Schedule in the root folder. There is no
> more global data than the catalog itself, but if there were it could be
> stored in the catalog folder, since catalogs are folderish.

Hmm, this is messy. Could the Catalog not be stored in your case in:
/Control Panel/Products/ZScheduler
and in Andy's case in:
/Control Panel/Products/ZMailIn
?

I like your point about ZCatalog's being folderish though ;-)

> ZScheduler's __init__.py method creates this global data structure if and
> only if it doesn't already exist. Because ZScheduler creates it, it can
> assign the appropriate permissions and methods to manage the global
> structure any way it wants.

This sounds like what you want to do, Andy...

cheers,

Chris