[Zope3-dev] Re: What don't file-system-based developers need

[Lex Berezhny]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 12:07, Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2004, at 5:54 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 
> > No, and I don't think that would be necessary. Scripters use 
> > SQLScripts and SQLExpressions TTW. File-system developers would 
> > probably use SQLObjects. Sidnei uses that, for example. I think he has 
> > a 'sqlobjectsupport' product to bind them into Zope3. Don't know where 
> > that is, though... (wink at dreamcatcher ;)).
> 
> Would probably use them, but not always.  I've become disillusioned 
> with O-R Mapping, and there are definitely times when - NOT AS A 
> SCRIPTER - I still need to use fairly plain SQL.

+1

> I'd like to have the latter, even if I don't have something akin to SQL 
> Methods.  I just want a [service|utility] that I can configure and then 
> send SQL Statements to and get result objects back from.  The DTML SQL 
> tags are nice, but I could live without them.

+1