[Zope3-dev] Proposal for file-system synchronization in Zope3

[Andy McKay]

Jim,

you briefly made the comment you might back port this 2.7 or 2.8, is that
still something you might do? If it is I'll explain my reasoning why I want
to have a wider debate on it.

If it isn't then ignore me ;)
--
  Andy McKay
  www.agmweb.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Fulton" <jim@zope.com>
To: "Deb Hazarika" <dhazarika@zeomega.com>
Cc: <zope3-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope3-dev] Proposal for file-system synchronization in Zope3


> Deb Hazarika wrote:
> >>As mentioned in the proposal, I created a throw away prototype of the
> >>
> > system
> >
> >>with basic checkout and checkin
> >>
> >
> > When can i find this prototype?
>
> You can't, but I hope to get the first non-prototype implementation
> done next month.
>
> > Well, Certain things about this system i wd like to ask :
> >
> > It is clear that the user is going to perform the checkout and checkin
etc..
> > operations
> > through some command line tools. Now here  the question arise
> > Is the user going to perform the checkout and checkin etc..operations on
the
> > ZOPEDB
> > as an anonymous user or he has to do a login ( like a cvs login ) ?
>
> At least initially, this will bypass security, so authentication is not an
issue.
>
> If we tried to deal with security issues, things would got a lot more
> complicated.
>
> ...
>
>
> > Lastly i would look forward on the representation of zope objects on the
> > filesystem.
> > This URL says something
> >
http://www.zope.org//Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/RepresentingObjectsOnTheFilesys
> > tem
> > Which i think is quite approachable.
>
> That proposal has some problems wrt the goals of file-system
synchronization.
>
> 1. RepresentingObjectsOnTheFilesystem doesn't try to be lossless.  It's
critical
>     for file system synchronization to have a lossless representation.
>
> 2. The representation isn't flexible enough to represent all object data.
>
> 3. The RepresentingObjectsOnTheFilesystem doesn't seem to deal with
potential name
>     conflicts between data and resource/meta-data files.
>
> 4. The RepresentingObjectsOnTheFilesystem proposal mizes data and
meta-data.
>
> Jim
>
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