.. Ross Patterson's Blog imported post, created by `$ ./bin/rfc822-to-post` on Mar 15, 2021.

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   :description: Effectively supporting indexed operations in a software ecosystem

.. post:: Dec 01, 9008
   :author: Ross Patterson
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Are Catalogs the Right Solution?
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    Effectively supporting indexed operations in a software ecosystem

The use of ZCatalogs in the Plone ecosystem has been the site of many nightmares.  To be clear, it's not that ZCatalog is broken, it does what it tries to do fairly well.  I think a software *ecosystem* that relies on an open community of developers to use ZCatalog in a scalable fashion is broken.

.. update:: Dec 02, 2008

   Imported from Plone on Mar 15, 2021.  The date for this update is the last
   modified date in Plone.