On Jan 15, 2009, at 3:21 AM, Shane Hathaway wrote: > Jim and ZODB Developers, > > I have just created a patch for ZODB that makes the object > serialization format pluggable, meaning that it should now be > possible to write Python code that causes ZODB to store in formats > other than Python pickles. > > I have created two versions of the patch, one for ZODB 3.8 and one > for the ZODB trunk: > > http://svn.zope.org/Sandbox/shane/serialization-format-ZODB-3-8.patch?view=markup > http://svn.zope.org/Sandbox/shane/serialization-format-ZODB-trunk.patch?view=markup > > In addition to making the data format pluggable, the patch puts most > of ZODB's dependencies on the cPickle module in one place, so now if > we decide to improve our usage of the cPickle module, we can make > that change in one place rather than several. Revision 92821, for > example, probably would have required a change to only one module. > > Revision 92821: http://svn.zope.org/ZODB/trunk?rev=92821&view=rev > > How would you feel about including this in ZODB 3.9?
I'll look at it and let you know. > Note that this is completely distinct from the shane-poll- > invalidations branch that RelStorage needs, although the two patches > are intended to be complementary. OK. I still need to review that branch. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
