[ZODB-Dev] another reason to stop supporting versions

[Tim Peters]

[Alan Runyan]
> +1 for removing versions. they have been considered "bad practice" for
> over 3 years.
> I believe 100% its ok to remove them.

Jim "formally announce[d] the intention to deprecate versions in both
Zope and ZODB" nearly 3 years ago, here:

    http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2004-July/011670.html

However, this was predicated upon "hav[ing] a [different] way to
maintain long-running transactions in Zope".  But given that they
probably don't work anymore anyway ... ;-)