[ZODB-Dev] Re: Persistence and the Components model

[Chris Withers]

> > Where's the best place to discuss this?
> 
> zope-zodb@zope.org I'd say.

<moving to the appropriate list>

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> > >From the stuff I saw, persistence is still going to be a mixin in the new
> > religion. I wonder if there's any way around that?
> 
> Yes, there is.  But we're trying to take small steps.  We figured out
> generally where we want to go, now we just take one step at a time.

So the is to make persistence a service in the long term rather than the short
term?

> > If persistence was a service, then it would provide a really nice
> > architecture for storing some objects/attributes in SQL/on the file
> > system/LDAP/etc. In fact it would seem the perfect place to make the
> > ORMapping stuff happen...
> 
> Maybe.  One of the nicest things about ZODB is ZEO, but all the stuff I've
> been experimenting with eliminates ZEO.

How come? I'm also growing to love ZEO... ;-)

cheers,

Chris