[Persistence-sig] getting started

[Jim Fulton]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>I dunno.  I personally believe there's a reason why few languages
>>>standardize persistence, and why languages that do include persistence
>>>have remained at the fringe at best.
>>>
>>>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>>>
>>Could you elaborate on why you believe so?
>>
>>I know the technical hurdles will not be insignificant, and we have to be 
>>careful not to try to come up with "THE ONE TRUE SOLUTION" that would be 
>>supposed to solve everyone's problems. Personally, something like ZOPE, 
>>with a few enhancements and guaranteed to work on any platform (read 
>>pure-python), would go a LONG way ion the right direction.
>>
> 
> Kevin Jacobs's posts here are an example of what I mean.  He wants to
> map objects to relational databases, which is very different from
> Zope.  Coming up with something that supports both sounds hard.

Maybe, but understand that O-R mapping is not in the scope of the SIG.
Rather, basic persistence and transaction frameworks, that one could build
O-R mappings or object databases on top of are in scope. I'm hopeful that
we could come up with low-level frameworks that could serve both.

Jim


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