Gary Poster <[email protected]> schrieb: > Hi Thomas. Very cool that you are working on zc.dict + zc.blist.
Better than letting that branch get old ;o) > The updateOrder API is a sucky API for blists, as I'm sure you've > realized. :-) It is sucky even when used with a PersistentList; it's just that the disadvantages of its implementation are more obvious in the context of BLists. > FWIW, I seem to recall that Plone has a reasonable-to-nice API for > changing order in containers, and the API would be able to take much > better advantage of using blists for the ordering. I was intending to > study that when I designed the new API (even if the Plone API were > perfect, I would be wary of copying it because of GPL vs. ZPL, but > maybe you could get them to relicense if you wanted it). I'll take a look at that, thanks for the pointer. > You'd probably still want to keep updateOrder around, I guess, since > that's the Zope 3 interface, but I would have documentation > discouraging it. Yes, and I think that we're talking about two steps here anyway. I'd like to finish and release a version that uses BLists ASAP; an additional API can always be added in a subsequent release. Viele Grüße, Thomas -- Thomas Lotze · [email protected] gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development
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