[ZODB-Dev] ZEO2 clientstorage parameters

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I'm wondering if it would be possible to change the ZEO 2
> > ClientStorage __init__ method parameters to be more similar to those
> > for ZEO 1...
> > 
> > The reason I ask is because the argument list appears to be
> > near-same except for a "debug" parameter from ZEO1 that has no
> > analogue in ZEO2 and the change of "wait_for_server_on_startup" in
> > ZEO1 to "wait" in ZEO2. These are minor changes, but they cause
> > breakage for anyone who has a custom_zodb.py that specifies any of
> > these arguments.  It would be nice if they would just be the same
> > (maybe with a warning if debug= is passed into ZEO2's
> > ClientStorage).
> > 
> > If this is not desirable, is there a recommended reliable way to
> > detect whether "import ZEO" (or "from ZEO.ClientStorage import
> > ClientStorage" or whatever) is getting you ZEO1 or ZEO2?
> 
> I think this is a reasonable request.  I'll change ZEO 2 so that you
> can specify debug (which will merely log a warning if not false) and
> you can specify wait_for_server_on_startup.  The preferred name for
> the latter will still be wait.

BTW, the default in ZEO 2 is not to wait for the server, while in ZEO
1 it was to wait.  I'll change this to wait by default too.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)