[Zope3-dev] ObjectHub: Kill the plugins!

Gary Poster gary@zope.com
18 Oct 2002 12:37:40 -0400


On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 01:40, kapil thangavelu wrote:

> hmm.. so originally the objecthub was an object linking service and 
> infrastructure for a catalog replacement, and now its just a 
> linking/relationship service. but what replaces the plugins? it seems that 
> the plugins are replaced by plugin indexes distributed along arbitrary 
> locations of the object graph, that are registered as subscribers to hub 
> events.
> 
> perhaps this object hub refactoring should say something about more explicit 
> about what will replace the catalog infrastructure, to provide a common query 
> interface to the distributed indexes? 

In the discussion (as opposed to the actual interface), yes.  Steve is
going in the direction I had envisioned in his email so I'll talk about
it there (soon :-) )

Gary