Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-29 Thread Nitro
Am 28.06.2010, 23:42 Uhr, schrieb Laurence Rowe l...@lrowe.co.uk: On 28 June 2010 21:27, Nitro ni...@dr-code.org wrote: ZODB is a general python object database with a much wider audience than just plone. It suits desktop applications just as well as applications you'd normally use twisted

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-29 Thread Enrique Perez
Hi, On 30/06/10 00:39, Nitro wrote: This is all very useful information. Thanks for the pointers Laurence. I'm glad you(we)'ve come up to a useful conclussion: we need clear, ordered, findable, consensued information (documentation) on a very complex technological organism. (Thanks Alan,

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Thomas Lotze
Nitro wrote: packaging: I don't plan to create a package for this as I don't see much point in adding yet another package to the clutter of packages surrounding zodb. Just a quick remark: Without being available as a package, your code will be far less useful (if not outright useless) to a

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Nitro
Am 28.06.2010, 08:21 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Lotze tho...@thomas-lotze.de: Nitro wrote: packaging: I don't plan to create a package for this as I don't see much point in adding yet another package to the clutter of packages surrounding zodb. Just a quick remark: Without being available as a

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Nitro
Am 28.06.2010, 14:10 Uhr, schrieb Dylan Jay d...@pretaweb.com: I don't use a lot of other indexes other than what comes with plone but I can see the value of what your suggesting in having an installable tested collection of indexes. I can also see that this is a really big itch for you

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Laurence Rowe
On 28 June 2010 15:23, Nitro ni...@dr-code.org wrote: Am 28.06.2010, 14:10 Uhr, schrieb Dylan Jay d...@pretaweb.com: I don't use a lot of other indexes other than what comes with plone but I can see the value of what your suggesting in having an installable tested collection of indexes. I can

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Leonardo Santagada
Although I think this sounds like an optimal solution, I think it isn't necessary. I wish only that there was a complements in ZODB wiki with a simple list of best of breed package for each task and maybe a list of alternatives. To make it even better a good deprecated section would be good so

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Fulton
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Alan Runyan runy...@gmail.com wrote: ...  - Have a canonical namespace which denotes quality, proven, and widely used packages.  Packages should never be in this namespace unless the package can meet some quality level. Mixing meta data into names is a bad

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Alan Runyan
Mixing meta data into names is a bad idea.  You don't want to change the name of something just because some of its meta data changes. Your right. It's just that sometimes people may have a package name that is not agreeable to the broader community. The namespace could be, zodb. No it

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Nitro
Am 28.06.2010, 16:52 Uhr, schrieb Laurence Rowe l...@lrowe.co.uk: So why don't we all work on the same packages? The main reason is one of legacy. Plone is built on Zope2 and ZCatalog. It works, but it is not without it's issues - we can't have queries that join from that catalog to a

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 06/28/2010 04:44 AM, Nitro wrote: I do not like the current packaging approach as I discussed in length in a recent message to this list [1]. Until this changes I am not going to spend time creating random packages. Around here, Python packages are how we communicate code. Think of a

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Nitro
Am 28.06.2010, 17:52 Uhr, schrieb Alan Runyan runy...@gmail.com: I have similar feelings as Matthias. - We could use something similar to the Apache incubation process. Yes. I think in general the library should be rather flexible. I.e. (minor) things can be deprecated and removed rather

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Nitro
Am 28.06.2010, 18:23 Uhr, schrieb Leonardo Santagada santag...@gmail.com: Although I think this sounds like an optimal solution, I think it isn't necessary. I wish only that there was a complements in ZODB wiki with a simple list of best of breed package for each task and maybe a list of

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Jim Fulton
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Alan Runyan runy...@gmail.com wrote: ... No it can't. ZODB isn't a namespace package and can't be one without breaking backward compatibility. Should it be a namespace package over the long term? Not IMO. That's partly because I think ZODB should be small. I

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Nitro
Am 28.06.2010, 20:31 Uhr, schrieb Shane Hathaway sh...@hathawaymix.org: Around here, Python packages are how we communicate code. Think of a released package as a well-refined email. If you choose not to release packages, you are really choosing not to communicate through the

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Laurence Rowe
On 28 June 2010 19:31, Nitro ni...@dr-code.org wrote: Am 28.06.2010, 16:52 Uhr, schrieb Laurence Rowe l...@lrowe.co.uk: So why don't we all work on the same packages? The main reason is one of legacy. Plone is built on Zope2 and ZCatalog. It works, but it is not without it's issues - we can't

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Shane Hathaway
Matthias, You are conflating two conversations, and as a result you are reacting to the non-stated suggestion that the packaging system provides sufficient stability information to consumers. That suggestion would obviously be false, since anyone, including people with hostile intentions,

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Laurence Rowe
On 28 June 2010 21:27, Nitro ni...@dr-code.org wrote: ZODB is a general python object database with a much wider audience than just plone. It suits desktop applications just as well as applications you'd normally use twisted and pickle for. Forcing all those zope dependencies like buildout on

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Nitro
Am 28.06.2010, 23:30 Uhr, schrieb Shane Hathaway sh...@hathawaymix.org: Matthias, You are conflating two conversations, and as a result you are reacting to the non-stated suggestion that the packaging system provides sufficient stability information to consumers. I've experienced the

Re: [ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-28 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 06/28/2010 07:29 PM, Nitro wrote: P.S.: This will be my last lengthy mail about this topic. I'll rather spend time writing blog entries for the docs project. That sounds fine. Shane ___ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki:

[ZODB-Dev] SpatialIndex

2010-06-22 Thread Nitro
Tada, the first version of SpatialIndex is ready! Where to get it? - See attachment. It's still a very rough alpha version, don't use in production. The attached test case works only in my own testing environment, but you can see how the spatial index can be used. What