[ZODB-Dev] future ZODB documentation

[ender]

On Wednesday 20 June 2001 14:09, Michel Pelletier wrote:
>>I'm working on the second article in the series on ZODB for Python
>>programmers.  This article covers more of the advanced details of ZODB:
>>
>>  Using persistent-aware types like BTrees
>>
>>  Pluggable storages with an emphasis on ZEO
>>
>>  Conflict resolution
>>
>>  Volatile attributes
>>
>>  Transactions and Subtransactions
>>
>>  Undo
>>
>>It occoured to me that there are some other aspectes that aren't covered,
>>even by ZODB itself.  I'm curious what you all think of the following
>>topics:
>>
>>  Exporting -- ZODB can currently export a pickle-file of an object, but
>>not XML.  Zope can export XML, and ZODB should really handle that and it
>>wouldn't be hard.
>>
>>  History -- Currently Zope provides history functionality, but ZODB
>>doesn't.  I don't see why ZODB shoudn't, nor do I see from browsing the
>>Zope code how it would be all that hard.  Should Zope's history protocol
>>be added to ZODB?
>>
>>  Time Travel -- Travelling back through time to the state of your
>>application at some point in the past.  Also not currently supported by
>>ZODB or Zope.
>>
>>What do you think of these topics?  Is there anything I'm missing?

well if your asking for a wish list 

- references to other objects (stored class refs?)
- caching
- versions

cheers

kapil