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

[Andy McKay]

In that case I'd have to comment on the proposal and get a few other people
who I know are concerned to comment on it as well. I'm concerned that whilst
this is a good proposal its yet another implementation of serving stuff from
the file system that we are getting.

This tool was never around so people had to invent it and we now have the
following tools for serving stuff from the file system: local fs, zfs,
extfile, extimage, external file, cvs file, cvs mixin and so on. The number
of posts on the zope list tell you how popular these products are. All these
different products do different things in different ways, but the end result
is getting data out of the zodb so people can use it.

To make things worse when CMF was released (unfortunately I wasnt involved
in development) file system directory views came out. These are yet another
method of serving content from the file system. This way is totally
different from all the others, again.

You've created a cool prototype which looks to me like you've re-invented it
all again, probably for the better. But its incompatible with all the above
(even when file system directory views does a very similar thing) and I
don't believe solves all the issues for the user.

I just want to make sure that whatever you check into the core is the tool
that people want. Lots of smart people have worked on this before so lets
get the discussion going, maybe release this as a standalone product and
look at what we should do with the core.
--
  Andy McKay
  www.agmweb.ca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Fulton" <jim@zope.com>
To: "Andy McKay" <andy@agmweb.ca>
Cc: "Deb Hazarika" <dhazarika@zeomega.com>; <zope3-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope3-dev] Proposal for file-system synchronization in Zope3


> Andy McKay wrote:
> > Jim,
> >
> > you briefly made the comment you might back port this 2.7 or 2.8, is
that
> > still something you might do?
>
> Yes.
>
> Jim
>
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