[Zope3-dev] DISCUSS: Zope3 and Zope2's version object

[Chris Withers]

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> 
> Note that we have a perfect real-world example of this type of
> problem with bobobase_modification_time (a.k.a. _p_mtime from
> the ZODB). Many people really want an application-level "last
> modified" property. Long ago we made the mistake of thinking
> we could adopt _p_mtime for this, but it often turns out to
> be wrong - the semantic of an application-level last modified
> is different than that of the database modification time.

I agree with this, so surely ZODB should be looking to get as slim as possible
and yet _just_ functional enough to do everything?

cheers,

Chris