Re: Backward compatibility (was Re: Announcing Newt DB, the amphibious database)
"Jens W. Klein" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.zodb |
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| Organization | Klein & Partner KG |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2017-03-25 19:19, Jim Fulton wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 1:47 PM, David Glick (Glick Software) > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 3/25/17 1:41 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 1:33 PM, David Glick (Glick Software) >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 3/25/17 1:23 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Jim Fulton >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> So is there anything more that needs to be done to make >>> it easy (ideally the default) for current Plone users to >>> use current ZODB releases? >>> >>> >>> Sorry to nag. I know y'all are busy, but what does it take >>> for Plone users to use up-to-date ZODB and Newt at this >>> point? Do they need to do anything special? >> In theory an adventurous Plone 4.3 or 5.0 user could upgrade >> to ZODB 5 now by overriding the version pins in their buildout >> for ZODB, ZODB3, persistent, BTrees, and ZEO. I haven't had a >> chance to try this on a real project yet. >> >> >> Are the version pins part of the releases? Can there be a new >> release, at least for 5 that has updated pins? I'm afraid that if >> Plone and ZODB5 are compatible now, the compatibility will rot if >> it isn't used (especially in CI). > > Yeah, a Plone release includes a versions.cfg file with a known good > set of versions. Updating to a new major version of a significant > dependency sounds like too big of a change to make in a 5.0 bugfix > release. It could probably happen for Plone 5.1, > > > Please! :) > > Jim It is as simple as a pull request on https://github.com/plone/buildout.coredev/blob/5.1/versions.cfg If there are no backward compatibility problems left: I am happy to merge. I dont see any reason to not merge or to make this a PLIP. Jens > -- > Jim Fulton > http://jimfulton.info > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "zodb" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Klein & Partner KG, member of BlueDynamics Alliance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "zodb" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.