[Zope-dev] Pointer or reference object

[Ty Sarna]

In article <000301bf8685$84b21960$ac0aa8c0@tor.torped.se>,
Johan Carlsson <johanc@torped.se> wrote:
> 
> One problem with having a reference count base class that's
> responsible for inactivate/delete the reference object is
> that Zope lacks a event model. 
> If a folder/container is deleted it doesn't inform its 
> siblings before it's deleted. And that may lead to invalid

It looks like recent Zope releases do pass beforeDelete all the way
down.

> There is a pointer product in the download section, 
> have you looked at it? 

Pointer is sort of like the ZMirror mentioned, but I really don't think
it's what you want. It was more of an expirement than somthing intended
to be useful (it requires a change to Zope to install, for example).