[Zope] Client-side Zope

Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com
Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:38:41 -0600


Flemming Funch <ffunch@worldtrans.org> wrote:
>
> At 10:50 AM 3/9/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >[Jerry Spicklemire, on Thu, 09 Mar 2000]
> >
> >:: One point that I think is still evolving is a clear set of guidelines
> >:: regarding what data is held in Zope, and what should be in other formats,
> >:: such as Gadfly. As long as we diligently keep DTML doing templating, and
> >:: avoid mixing tabular data and static content in with ZODB objects, it
> >:: should be fairly straightforward to do Zope Exports of the Zope Framework,
> >:: and file copies, or native exports of data in other "backends".
> >
> >Evolving set of guidelines?
> >
> >Can someone in the know take a crack at setting these down in writing?
> 
> Yeah, that would be very helpful.
> 
> As a Zope Newbie, who's developed lots of database stuff in PHP and Perl, I
> am unclear on whether I'm "supposed to" try to make everything an object in
> ZODB.
> 
> Say I'm making a repository of documents, like articles or e-mail messages,
> and I expect to end up with 100s of thousands of those, should I
> confidently work on making them all Zope objects, or should I stick with
> mySQL records and/or files in the file system, like I normally would?

Anthony Baxter has a How-To, "Choosing to store data in SQL vs ZODB", at:

 http://www.zope.org/Members/anthony/sql_vs_ZODB

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