[Zope3-dev] RFC: File-system synchronization proposal

[Shane Hathaway]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> 
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've written a proposal for file-system synchronization for Zope 3:
>>> http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/FileSystemSynchronizationProposal 
>>
>> Is there overlap here with the AdaptableStorage stuff Shane did and 
>> the stuff the Python Persistence SIG is working on?
> 
> 
> Not really. This is a system for:
> 
> - Representing Zope objects on the file system without loss of information
> 
> - Synchronozing between the file system and the database (well, it 
> really doesn't
>   have anything to do with the database).
> 
> It is not a persistence system.

There could be some overlap, since both projects require serialization 
classes that do similar things.  But the needs are too different to 
consider trying to reuse serializers in this early stage.

Shane