[Zope3-dev] Re: RFC: File-system synchronization proposal: ExternalFile?

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Jean Jordaan wrote:
>  > Not really. This is a system for:
>  >
>  > - Representing Zope objects on the file system without loss of information
>
> How about ExternalFile?
> "ExternalFile extends Zope to work with files in the filesystem."
> http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/ExternalFile
>
> Or is ExternalFile very Zope2-specific?

ExternalFile solves a different problem: *storing* (zope2) object
contents in the file system.  Jim is talking about *synchronization*
between two separate entities, one stored in the ZODB and one
stored in the file system.

--RDM