RE: [Pythoncard-users] StandaloneZODB cross-platform issues

[Patrick K. O'B. <po...@or...>]

[Neil Hodgson]
> >
> > You lost me. Could you clarify this statement? I'm not sure
> what you mean.
>
>    ZOPE corp needs to earn income from ZOPE on Windows and thus needs to
> maintain and enhance ZODB on Windows but only to the extent that
> the work on
> ZODB is needed for ZOPE (the product). They do not earn income on
> StandAloneZODB so are unlikely to be able to afford to provide many
> resources for this.
>
>    ZODB is not dead code. If you look inside the CVS logs at
> http://cvs.zope.org/StandaloneZODB/
>    you can see how much activity is occurring. During the last
> few days, Tim
> Peters has done a bunch of work in BTrees, and over the past few months
> (since the 1.0 version) there have been numerous updates by the
> core Python
> developers.

Thanks for the clarification. I agree completely. Zope Corp has no real
incentive to work on StandaloneZODB and the extent that they do work on it
shows that it is not dead, just limited. But that is true about lots of
Python add-ons, including code that ships in the standard library. This is
Open Source and others are expected to pitch in. We can do the same with
ZODB. And I'd bet we'd get the blessing of the Python folks. So I think we
should be no more (and no less) concerned about the future of ZODB than we
are about the future of wxPython and Scintilla and PyCrust and ...

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