2009/11/13 Martin Aspeli <optilude+li...@gmail.com>: > Hanno Schlichting wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Mikko Ohtamaa <mi...@redinnovation.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Unfortunately the application having the issues is Plone 3.3. ZODB 3.9 >>>> depends on Zope 2.12 so, right? >>> ZODB does depend on Zope anything. :) >>> >>> Plone 3.3 may use an earlier version of ZODB. but perhaps it is >>> possible to get it to work with a later one. I wouldn't know. :) >> >> Plone 3.x uses Zope 2.10 and ZODB 3.7. Upgrading it to ZODB 3.8.x is trivial. >> >> But the changes in ZODB 3.9 (essentially the removal of the version >> feature) require a bunch of non-trivial changes to Zope2. So only Zope >> 2.12 works with ZODB 3.9. >> >> Anyone using Plone 3.x who wants to use blobs is therefor stuck with >> ZODB 3.8.x. It's not supported by Plone and considered experimental on >> all layers :) > > Meanwhile, several people have used it in production. I was a little > taken aback to discover that it is considered "somewhat experimental" > (and it seems, a bit broken) in ZODB 3.8 (as distinct from the Plone > integration package, plone.app.blob, which indeed has been experimental > up until now). I think a lot of other people would be too. > > A lot of people would be very happy if this bug in ZODB 3.8 could be > fixed, since the option of upgrading is not there (since ZODB 3.9 > introduces too-incompatible changes to work with Zope 2.10) for anyone > on a released, stable version of Plone.
Presumably ZODB 3.9 maintains backwards compatibility for ZEO clients, so a ZODB 3.9 ZEO server could be used with Zope 2.10 + ZODB 3.8 clients? Laurence _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
