[Zope3-dev] Heads up: zope.app.intid and zope.app.keyreference are now op

Janko Hauser jhauser at zscout.de
Thu Jun 16 13:51:58 EDT 2005


Am 16.06.2005 um 18:33 schrieb Paul Winkler:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:18:06PM -0400, Benji York wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit confused by this conversation.  GUIDs (globally-unique
>> identifiers) aren't neccesary for integer IDs.  We just need
>> locally-unique identifiers, which are much easier to generate.
>>
>
> What about export / import of content?
> That makes "locally" hard to define.

Point is, that export / relocated import are exactly an example for  
not globally unique ids. For example one has two instances, a staging  
and a production environment the assumption of globally unique ids  
would only allow a one way transfer of objects.

Just as a note

__Janko



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