[ZODB-Dev] RFC: Python2 - Py3k database compatibility

[Jim Fulton]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Stephan Richter
<stephan.richter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, April 26, 2013 05:34:15 PM Tres Seaver wrote:
>> I would like to merge this branch to master early next week and make a
>> release, so that we can evaluate merging the 'py3' branch of ZODB.
>>
>> Thoughts?  Note that I have not yet addressed the portions of my proposal
>> which deal with analyzing / converting existing databases, or with the
>> possibly-needed wrapper storage (for on-the-fly conversion).
>
> Let's do it. This way people can test ZODB 4 on their existing Py2 code bases
> and we at CH can test our uibuilder/demo on Python 3. This will give us at
> least some confidence that we are going in the right direction.
>
> We might consider not even tackling DB conversions for ZODB 4.0 and delay that
> to ZODB 4.1 or leave it even up to an add-on package. This way people can
> experiment with different approaches and we do not have to nail the conversion
> problem with ZODB 4.0.

I've lost track of where we are with ZODB 4.

Can ZODB 4 be used now without zodbpickle?

Jim

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