Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-30 Thread Tres Seaver
Chris Withers wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: who's the CTO? Jim is. Okay, I get the joke now :-) * "persistent" references are effectively required to be immortal: it is _mandated_ that one be able to stringify the IOR, copy it to a piece of paper, put the paper in a

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-28 Thread Chris Withers
Tres Seaver wrote: who's the CTO? Jim is. Okay, I get the joke now :-) * "persistent" references are effectively required to be immortal: it is _mandated_ that one be able to stringify the IOR, copy it to a piece of paper, put the paper in a bottle, and cast it on the waves;

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-25 Thread Michel Pelletier
Evan Simpson wrote: In the case of Catalogs, much of the time we're probably not interested in cataloging "whatever lives at this path address"; At the moment this is true, but Jim and I have discussed the possibility of ZCatalog being treating the paths less atomically and more as a

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-25 Thread Chris Withers
Michel Pelletier wrote: At the moment this is true, but Jim and I have discussed the possibility of ZCatalog being treating the paths less atomically and more as a sequence of nodes from root to the target, this way, you could ask the catalog for all objects below a certain point that match

Re: [Zope-dev] Re: ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-25 Thread Evan Simpson
- Original Message - From: Chris Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] who's the CTO? Jim Fulton, Chief Technology Officer. use paths instead of object monikers. Why not do both? Have an POID (CORBA style) to actually identify an object and then use paths of POIDS to identify stuff in a

[Zope-dev] Re: ZCatalog and Unique IDs

2000-05-24 Thread Michel Pelletier
Chris Withers wrote: Hi, I hope this is a stupid question but why does ZCatalog use the URL of an object to uniquely identify it? Because it's unique. Why not just use a reference to the object? How do you define that? If you mean reference in the strictly python sense, then I