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

[Jim Fulton]

Jean Jordaan wrote:
> Jim Fulton wrote:
>  > Chris Withers wrote:
>  >> 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
> 
> How about ExternalFile?
> "ExternalFile extends Zope to work with files in the filesystem."
> http://www.zope.org/Members/arielpartners/ExternalFile

ExternalFile does the opposite. It represents a file-system file as a
Zope object.

What we need is a way to represent a Zope object as a file-system
file (or directory). This is a bit harder, since Zope objects are a lot
more structured than files.  An additional challenge is that we want to
represent objects on the file system in a way that will be useful to
human editors of the files and to file-system based tools, especially tools
like CVS.

Jim


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