[Zope] RelationalStorage (was LocalFS)

[Chris McDonough]

> Will this be db agnostic or be fairly hardcoded?

Work seems to be initially towards Oracle and MySQL, but the intention
is to abstract commonalities into a base class that would make it fairly
easy to use any SQL database.
 
> There are people on the IB lists which are Zope aware and 
> would like to
> see IB be a first class citizen in the Zope community. I am not an
> expert on IB, but from what I've seen it could possibly 
> support objects
> well. It has an understanding of the OO world.

Interbase is also an option... I'd love to use it.. it may be part of
development.
 
> It would be nice if this could be done where it could scale from the
> 'whats sql' user to the power sql user. Giving both the ability to use
> it at their level. What I mean here is that it is transparent as
> possible while providing as much expressiveness as possible.

It will be indistinguishable from a FileStorage as far as the user is
concerned.  It won't allow you to make use of zope object instance data
outside Zope, however, as it will still store objects in pickled format.