[Zope3-dev] Florent's O-R blog entry

[Shane Hathaway]

Gary Poster wrote:
> 
> On Aug 23, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Gary Poster wrote:
> 
>> FWIW, my concluding sentence would have been better written as  
>> "Meanwhile, deciding that a community project require an O/R back  end 
>> over FileStorage or DirectoryStorage, as Florent argues, feels  like a 
>> significant case of "throwing the baby out with the bath  water"."
> 
> 
> Argh, communication.  That still could be too-easily misinterpreted,  
> and I didn't stare at it long enough before I sent it.  One more try.
> 
> Meanwhile, deciding that a community project require any specific  
> backend--Ape, FileStorage, DirectoryStorage, or another--feels like a  
> mistake.  Discarding FileStorage or DirectoryStorage, as Florent  
> argues, is a significant case of "throwing the baby out with the bath  
> water".  We have at least three maintained and capable ZODB backends,  
> with different strengths and weaknesses, appropriate for different  use 
> cases.  Lets not jump to discard any of them.

I agree 100%.  However, your concern is that projects will require a 
specific ZODB backend, while my concern is that projects will dump ZODB 
altogether.  I think the latter is the greater risk, and people need a 
middle ground so they don't isolate themselves from the rest of the 
community.  Ape could be a part of that middle ground.

Also, I did not intend to disparage the excellent FileStorage and 
DirectoryStorage packages.  I always tell people to use FileStorage or 
DirectoryStorage unless they have a good reason not to, and the biggest 
reason not to use FileStorage (through-the-web code is hard to put under 
version control) is already disappearing with Zope 3.

Shane