[Zope-dev] Re: AdaptableStorage

[seb bacon]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>> Shane Hathaway wrote:
>>
>>> performance.  There needs to be a way for applications that modify 
>>> the database to tell Zope about the modification, so Zope can reset 
>>> its caches.
>>
>>
>> But, IIRC, the last time this was discussed on a mailing list you had 
>> some cool ideas to sovle the problem, right?
> 
> 
> Yes, but I want to hear other people's ideas first.  What do you think?

Isn't this a different problem for each kind of storage, e.g. MD5 hash 
for ext2, transaction ID for foo...?  Or are you referring to a 
different aspect of the problem?

While reading the referenced thread on the subject, I found your 
description of the product design here:

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2002-August/016981.html

Could this go in the docs/ directory of the product?  The design, while 
very clean, doesn't lend itself to immediate understanding on a cursory 
view of the source...

seb