Re: Backward compatibility (was Re: Announcing Newt DB, the amphibious database)

Jim Fulton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zodb
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Hanno Schlichting <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017, at 20:22, David Glick (Glick Software) wrote:
>>
>> If you make a branch of transaction with your proposed fix, I can run the
>> Plone tests with that (unreleased) plus current releases of
>> ZODB/ZEO/BTrees.
>>
>>
>> I just tried updating Zope 2.13 to the latest
>> ZODB/ZEO/BTrees/persistent/transaction releases. By default it still
>> used ZODB 3.10, so didn't even have the split into separate projects yet.
>>
>> I hacked transaction locally to accept both None and forcefully decode
>> bytes from utf-8 for the transaction metadata. That made most tests work.
>>
>> But it does still fail with import errors for tempstorage. I tried to
>> update tempstorage master at some point but had to give up, as I don't know
>> enough about the ZODB protocol. This project implements a full custom
>> storage, main code is at https://github.com/zopefoundat
>> ion/tempstorage/blob/master/src/tempstorage/TemporaryStorage.py
>>
>> Unfortunately in Zope 2.13 one of those temp storages is always present
>> and added to the ZODB, so even though nobody really uses it anymore, it's
>> still there.
>>
>
By "nobody really uses it anymore", I assume you mean, "some people use
it".  :) Is that right?

If not, why do we care if there are failing tests?  We could just remove
them.

Jim

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