[Zope3-dev] Changes to transaction management API

[Garrett Smith]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Garrett Smith]
>> Recent changes to the transaction management API seem to have come
>> out of the blue and without warning. Perhaps I missed an
>> announcement. 
>> 
>> Are we to expect breakages of this sort on occasion?
> 
> Not often.  The formal interfaces for the transaction API contained
> errors (of omission and commission) and unimplemented nonsense that
> was never going to be implemented.  It was a mess, and it's still not
> entirely correct, although the methods in the interfaces now are fully
> supported.
> 
> More pedantically, ZODB 3.4 is still in an alpha release, and yes,
> changes in alphas aren't unheard of <wink>.

Indeed, but a short  'heads up' goes a long way.

 -- Garrett