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? Note that this is completely distinct from the shane-poll-invalidations branch that RelStorage needs, although the two patches are intended to be complementary. Shane _______________________________________________ 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
