[Zope-dev] direction

[Chris McDonough]

On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 17:44 +0200, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
> > I don't have any skin in this game, but FTR, Mike Bayer isn't feeling
> > all that confident about Beaker's sessioning component (or so he has
> > told me).  Beaker was originally made as a caching component, and had
> > sessioning jammed into it quite late; nobody is really maintaining the
> > sessioning component of it now.
> 
> Well, if I can choose between modern unmaintained code from Mike Bayer
> and stone-age unmaintained code from Zope, it's still an easy choice
> ;-)

You might want to talk to Wiggy about that.  He has a lot of experience
with Beaker.

> And looking at the basics of what Beaker does here, it's still much
> more useful and of better quality than what we have in Zope 2.
> 
> If there's any other non-framework-specific session machinery out
> there, we could use that as well. But I think most other stuff is tied
> into Django.

Our attempt at penance (still framework specific) is here:

http://agendaless.com/Members/tseaver/software/faster/faster-0.5.1/README.txt

I don't know of any other sessioning libraries.

- C