[Zope] Counter and concurrent access

[marc lindahl]

Makes sense... I'm interested in this thread because I think it would be
handy to keep track of 'number of downloads' of various file types - for
example, to build a list of 'most popular downloads', etc.  It seems like
perhaps, using the Catalog for that makes sense?

> From: Paul Everitt <paul@zope.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:19:30 -0400
> To: marc lindahl <marc@bowery.com>
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Counter and concurrent access
> 
> 
> We wanted to enforce some rules that had to be enforced before someone
> could get to a File.  For instance, you had to register, or you were on
> a list of beta candidates, or you had to come from a certain page, or
> you wanted to record a log of who got to it, etc.
> 
> When this was done there were no ZClasses, so it was a pretty
> heavyweight activitiy to make a slight customization to enforce these
> policies.