Thanks, Dieter, I've added these comments to the Wiki.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dieter Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chris McDonough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] ANN: Proposal for ZCatalog "drop-in" indexes
> Chris McDonough writes:
> > I'd like comments on this proposal if you've got the time:
> >
> > http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/DropInIndexes
> Looks good.
>
> When you are changing the indexing and catalog stuff:
>
> * make the interface "index" public, such that
> it can be used from outside the ZCatalog
>
> * standardize the result type of index searches
> such that partial search results can easily be
> combined
>
> * provide operators "union", "intersection"
> and "difference" on search results.
>
>
> What would you gain?
>
> We could leave the rigit search interface of the ZCatalog
> and provide flexible queries that and/or subqueries
> against different indexes.
>
> Especially CMFTopic would profit much from this.
>
>
> Dieter
>
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