[Zope-CMF] Refining the disposition of published-documentrevisions

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Tue, 29 May 2001 16:33:40 +0100


> > This suggests to me that in an ideal world, it would be possible at
> > the application level to identify documents and/or specific document
> > versions to be exempted from packing.  I'm not sure whether this is the
> > right route from an architectural perspective, that's something to be
> > examined.
>
> Along those lines...  perhaps being able to tag each version of a doc as
> 'permanent' - exempt from packing, or 'transitory' - subject to packing...
> Also, how about being able to command a particular object to pack itself
> (could be used to explicitly flush out transitory versions, or in other
> contexts manage data.fs bloat)

I'm sure I remember Jim Fulton having some views on this kindof thing, maybe
on the ZODB-dev list?

cheers,

Chris