[Zope] RE: URGENT: Can't start up zope

[Martijn Pieters]

At 10:39 14-6-99 , Paul Everitt wrote:
>On a technical level, since the data in the RDBMS record is a pickled
>Python instance, it would be basically unusable to other applications. 
>You'd gain a "standard" for record management, but not one for data
>management.
>
>On an abstract level, the statement "if Zope data can be accessed by
>other applications" seems to be a pretty clear violation of
>encapsulation, but that's just the object zealot party line. :^)

Yeah right, as if python enforces this =)

I realized that the RDMS will hold pickles, that's why there might be the
need for tools to unpickle them. Like Zope, haha. I explained this to my
colleagues. I thik they still feel uncomfertable with the fact that the
data is of use only to Zope.



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