[Zope3-dev] Would anyone mind having to toss their Zope 3 database?

[Jim Fulton]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:39:15AM -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:
> | If anyone does mind, that's fine, but then I'll provide a warning before the
> | merge and provide a couple of days for people to test the adaptergeddon 
> | branch
> | against their data.
> | 
> | Before merging the parentgeddon branch, I suggested that people try it out
> | with their data to make sure my efforts to convert old data were sucessful.
> | Did anyone take me up on the offer?
> 
> Well, it worked relativelly well that time except for some glitches
> which I couldn't reproduce. Anyway, the data was not that important
> and I ended thrwoing the db away.

Did you try it out before I merged into the trunk?

> | We need a better framework or toolset for migrating data after
> | refactoring. Unfortunately, developing that hasn't been a high priority
> | (yet).  Maybe it should be.
> | 
> | I'm curious.  Is current data valuable enough that we should delay other
> | Zope 3 work to get a data migration system in place?  Or is it better to
> | work on core architecture and features now.
> 
> In the projects I'm working on the only persistent things I have are
> the local Utilities and Interface services, and some Persistent
> Schema. I also have some local services of my own, but they are
> 'recyclable' afaict. 

Are you saying that you wouldn't mind having to toss your data file,
or that you would mind?

Jim

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