[Persistence-sig] getting started

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:10:13 -0400


> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
[...]
> > Anyway, the fact that these things can be done based solely on the existing
> > ZODB4 Persistent and Transaction classes, entirely ignoring the "ZODB"
> > package itself, means that what's available from ZODB is actually pretty
> > close to what's needed as a base mechanism.  It's more a question (to me,
> > anyway) of what could/should be improved, particularly in the form of how
> > the API calls and interfaces are phrased.
> > 
> > For my requirements, I'd be fine with it if we just put Persistent and
> > Transaction in the standard library, with better docs.  :)  But it'd be
> > nice if certain things were spelled differently, or a bit more flexible.

This is a goal I can agree with.  Care to start a list of what
spellings you'd like to change?

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