FYI I'd like to have a 2.6.1 beta out next week. Jeremy is still looking at a few ZODB bug reports - as soon as he's done we'll make the beta.
Im not sure this is a good plan.
Jeremy's sortKey changes look like they deserve a longer beta testing period than I would have thought the demand for a DateTime fix would allow.
My understanding was that objects would not be required to implement sortKey (and wouldn't be adversely affected for not implementing it) unless they cared about the specific issue that it addresses. I'll verify this w/Jeremy tomorrow, but last I heard ordering should only actually be an issue for Connection objects - other objects that play with the transaction mgr will generally not be subject to the deadlock issue that the sorting is designed to prevent (the deadlock is due to connection interaction w/a storage server). Brian Lloyd brian@zope.com V.P. Engineering 540.361.1716 Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com