Hi Jim
On 2007-06-11 21:39:03 +0200, Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
The ZODB 3.8.0b1 release is available at:
http://www.python.org/pypi/ZODB3/3.8.0b1
The major changes since 3.8.0a1 are in Blobs. Blobs have been re-
factored a fair bit.
Some backward incompatible changes include:
- The Blob class is now imported from ZODB.blob.
- The Blob openDetached method has bee replaced by the committed
method. It is now possible to get a blob file name that can be handed
to external programs for reading.
- Text-mode blobs are no-longer supported. All blobs are implicitly
in binary mode. There is no need to specify this in the blob open
method. The valid modes, 'r', 'w', 'a', and 'r+' are all implicitly
binary.
- Calling consumeFile with an open file is no-longer supported.
I've also made a 3.8 release branch. Any bug fixes should be applied
to the branch, the trunk and earlier branches as appropriate. Work
toward 3.9 can proceed on the trunk.
I started playing with blobs a little bit. And yes, they're working great.
But I have a few things to note:
In combination with ZEO there seem to be various ways to miss-configure
the blob storage in a way where it *seems* to work. But at a point
you'll get strange errors an wonder. In my case I shared the blob
storage with the zeo client w/o telling the zeo client that it actually
was shared.
I think this should just break, i.e. prevent the ZEO client from making
a connection. This could be achieved my some marker files in the blob
directory which would be created on initialization. For instance:
blobs/.blob-storage or blobs/.blob-cache
This way a client would know that a directory containing the
.blob-storage must be set up in shared mode.
--
Christian Zagrodnick
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