[Zope-dev] [ZODB-Dev] RFC: release persistent as a standalone package

[Laurence Rowe]

On 1 July 2012 02:16, Leonardo Rochael Almeida <leorochael at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm +1 on the change even without the answer to my next question, but
> can you elaborate on what is the advantage of releasing persistent
> appart from ZODB?

As well as the clearer separation of concerns it opens up the
possibility for other persistence systems to adopt persistent for
detecting changes to mapped objects, gaining the benefit of its fast C
implementation. The BTrees package is also useful outside the context
of the ZODB.

Laurence