[Zope3-dev] Catalog only depeding on ZODB Was: Complexness of Zope3

[Tres Seaver]

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 08:18, Steve Alexander wrote:
> Thomas Guettler wrote:
> > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 03:58:15PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
> > 
> >>Constructive criticisms and suggestions will certainly help.
> > 
> > It would be nice if the new Catalog would only depend on ZODB. Then
> > you can take ZODB and the new Catalog and write your own frontend:
> > e.g. Corba or an other remote procedure call method.
> 
> Many of the underlying indexes that you will be able to use with the 
> Zope 3 cataloguing facilities will store their data in the ZODB. And, 
> you will be able to use these indexes in ZODB applications independently 
> of Zope. The ZCTextIndex that Guido van Rossum and others ported during 
> the Rotterdam Sprintathon last year can be used like this already.
> 
> In general, the catalog-related features of Zope 3 do not depend 
> significantly on the ZODB.

The major dependency of the existing index classes is on persistent
BTrees, which are packaged with ZODB.

Tres.
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