[Zope3-dev] changing the pickle format (fwd)

[Jeremy Hylton]

>Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>> There's a new branch, called new-pickle-branch, that has an
>> significant revision to the way persistent references are handled.
>> It's an important enabling change for persistent modules and classes,
>> but is incompatible with the current pickle format.
>
>Does this include the changes Guido was talking about to make for smaller
>pickles for new-style classes?

No.  Guido hasn't even started work on that feature yet.  The only
change is to replace the strings "amodule" and "aclass" with a real
class object in the persistent references.

Jeremy