[ZODB-Dev] Diff for Standalone SearchIndex

[Chris McDonough]

Hi Christian,

This may be a bad time for attempting to figure out how to distribute
Catalog-related modules with a standalone ZODB distribution, because the
Catalog is undergoing some serious changes at the moment, specifically
related to indexes.  Zope 2.4 will ship with "drop in" indexes, which
don't make use of the SearchIndex code, although the SearchIndex code
will stick around for backwards compatibility purposes.

I think you should wait for the first Zope 2.4 alpha (or work out of
Zope trunk CVS) before making decisions about the Catalog-related stuff
that you'd like to see in a standalone ZODB distribution.  I'm not
entirely sure what's involved in compensating for the changes, but it'd
be a shame to see you do lots of work to get the Catalog into a
standalone distro only to need to unravel it in a few months and do it
again.

- C


Christian Robottom Reis wrote:


> 
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> > Note that I've dropped Catalog and SearchIndex from the upcoming
> > release of my packaged ZODB (which I'd like to issue on Saturday).
> > They can always be resurrected if necessary, or you can contribute
> > your patches back to DC.
> 
> Andrew, if I may, I'd vote to keep SearchIndex in your distribution, and
> if you agree, I'd like to write-up a part of the ZODB HOWTO that deals
> with Indexes. My plan is to allow for enough documention so that indexes
> can be useful in your distro. I'd be very happy if you agreed :-) Note
> that the SearchIndex provided in your last release was an ancient version!
> 
> Will anybody at DC accept/reject the patches I provided for a
> StandaloneSearchIndex? Or at least comment on them?
> 
> Take care,
> --
> /\/\ Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil
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