[ZODB-Dev] RelStorage in ZODB 3.8? (was Completing ZEO authentication support)

[Shane Hathaway]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> --On 23. April 2008 09:39:57 -0600 Shane Hathaway <shane at hathawaymix.org> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>> --On 23. April 2008 09:20:00 -0600 Shane Hathaway
>>> <shane at hathawaymix.org>  wrote:
>>>> AFAIK, Jim is working on major ZODB changes for ZODB 3.9.  Could we move
>>>> those major changes into ZODB 3.10 and create ZODB 3.9 with only modest
>>>> feature enhancements, then use ZODB 3.9 with Zope 2.11?
>>> Zope 2.11 will ship with ZODB 3.8 - not with 3.9.
>> I am suggesting we change that decision and simultaneously make ZODB 3.9
>> only slightly different from ZODB 3.8.  I would not suggest this if Zope
>> 2.11 were in beta, but it's still in alpha.
> 
> The changes in ZODB 3.9 would be necessary in order to make Relstorage work
> out-of-the-box with Zope 2.11 (ZODB invalidation patch), right? I would be 
> happy to see Relstorage work out-of-the-box with Zope 2.11 since Relstorage 
> has a great potential. However the ZODB should be as little as possible and 
> of course backward compatible. Also have in mind that are already 
> installations running in production using the blob support of ZODB 3.8. 
> However the risks should be low and there must be a consensus among the 
> core developer.

I agree.  Even if Jim approves the patch or a variation of it, I am a 
little hesitant to include the patch in ZODB 3.8 simply because to do so 
could be considered a violation of release policy (it is a new feature, 
after all).  However, a consensus among the core ZODB developers could 
override that policy.

Shane