[Zope3-dev] Re: Database reset

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> We now have a process for database schema migration:
> 
>   http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/DatabaseGenerations
> 
> We can't use it however, until we get Zope to a baseline,
> generation 0. Once this happens, we can remove all of the existing
> database-backward-compatibility code and use the generation mechanism
> going forward.  I'd like to set a time, sometime in the next week or three,
> to remove the existing backward compatibility code. After we do this,
> the Zope 3 head will no longer be usable for people with databases that
> haven't kept up with the various changes over the last few months.

+1e24

For those that have data living in their ZODB and are still relying on 
current backward compatability fixes:

It is recommended to use fssync to "dump" the ZODB to the filesystem and 
import it later again. The cookbook has a chapter on writing fssync 
adapters and using the tool.

All others will need to "rm Data.fs" ;)

> How about a week from Today?  How about this Monday? :)

The sooner the better. People that need to do the fssync dumping-loading 
process can always use a sticky date or not cvs up at all.

> Does anyone actually care? :)

Not me.

Philipp