[Zope-dev] Re: RFC: A proposal for ZODB schema migration in Zope 3

[Casey Duncan]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:14:35 -0400
Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

> 
> I've posted a proposal:
> 
>    http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/DatabaseGenerations
> 
> for a framework for managing the migration of application/database
> schemas in ZODB databases in an orderly manner.  The proposal is to
> apply this new framework in Zope 3, however, if it works well, it
> would be applicable to Zope 2 and other ZODB applications.
> 
> Comments are welcome.

+1

It might be nice if some of this mechanism was distributed in ZODB
itself, or at least the ZODB docs pointed to the implementation as an
example of how it could be done. This is definitely a problem not
limited to Zope.

-Casey