[Zope-dev] Help System Searches

[kapil thangavelu]

would it make sense to make the help system still allow searching but do 
storage in a mounted zodb ? 

cheers

kapil



On Saturday 09 March 2002 10:55 am, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > There is no way to fix this? What other problems are there with the
> > help system?
>
> Not that I can think of.  Other problems with the help system are
> presentation, mostly.
>
> > Would it somehow be possible to make the helpsystem ignore versions?
>
> No, unfortunately.  It uses the Catalog, which is based on ZODB, and it
> puts a Catalog instance into the main FileStorage, which is undoing and
> versioning.  It then proceeds to do writes to the database when it
> appears that all you're doing is reading a pre-existing page.  If you're
> in a version at the time, a set of objects will be written into the
> Catalog and into other places in instance space that  have version.
> This is a bad pattern, and the only way to fix it is to prevent it from
> happening, which requires some helpsystem architectural changes that
> amount (IMHO) to a rewrite.
>
> - C